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pbzip2

A parallel implementation of the `bzip2` file compressor.

TLDR

Compress a file

$ pbzip2 [path/to/file]
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Compress a file using the specified number of processors
$ pbzip2 -p[4] [path/to/file]
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[d]ecompress a file
$ pbzip2 --decompress [path/to/compressed_file.bz2]
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Display help
$ pbzip2 -h
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