Command-line tool

pbzip2

brew/pbzip2

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Parallel bzip2

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At a glance

Type

Command-line tool

Install on

macOS, Linux

Last checked

25 Oct 2026, 21:09 UTC

Install it

macOS

brew install pbzip2

Linux

brew install pbzip2

Compress a file

pbzip2 path/to/file

Compress a file using the specified number of processors

pbzip2 -p4 path/to/file

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

tar -cf path/to/compressed_file.tar.bz2 -I "pbzip2 -option1 -option2 ..." path/to/file

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