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Compress files efficiently with pbzip2, a parallel bzip2 implementation. Achieve faster compression rates with multi-core support. Free online tool, no registration required.

pbzip2

A parallel implementation of the bzip2 file compressor. See also: bzip2, tar. More information: https://manned.org/pbzip2.

Compress a file:

pbzip2 {{path/to/file}}

Compress a file using the specified number of processors:

pbzip2 -p{{4}} {{path/to/file}}

Compress in combination with tar (options can be passed to pbzip2):

tar -cf {{path/to/compressed_file}}.tar.bz2 {{[-I|--use-compress-program]}} "pbzip2 {{-option1 -option2 ...}}" {{path/to/file}}

Decompress a file:

pbzip2 {{[-d|--decompress]}} {{path/to/compressed_file.bz2}}

Display help:

pbzip2 {{[-h|--help]}}

return

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