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    Parallel bzip2: lbzip2

    Andreas

    2019-10-27 12:00

    As follow up to a previous post: Splitting a big file with split.

    If the speed is limited by the bzip2 process this can be parallelized by using: lbzip2.

    Lbzip2 works as a drop-in replacement to bzip2. All distributions should have a package for lbzip2.

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