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Is it possible to pipe a command output to bzip2 for compression to an output file?



Something along the lines of:



cat somefile.txt | bzip2 --output somefile.txt.bz2





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    Is it possible to pipe a command output to bzip2 for compression to an output file?



    Something along the lines of:



    cat somefile.txt | bzip2 --output somefile.txt.bz2





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      Is it possible to pipe a command output to bzip2 for compression to an output file?



      Something along the lines of:



      cat somefile.txt | bzip2 --output somefile.txt.bz2





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      Is it possible to pipe a command output to bzip2 for compression to an output file?



      Something along the lines of:



      cat somefile.txt | bzip2 --output somefile.txt.bz2





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          You can do this with bzip2's -c option:



                 -c --stdout
          
              Compress or decompress to standard output.


          For example:



          command | bzip2 -c > some.txt.bz2


          And to decompress:



          bzip2 -dc < some.txt.bz2 | less





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            The bzip2 utility will compress stdin but won't write it to stdout if stdout is a terminal. You can though use standard output redirection techniques.



            command | bzip2 >somefile.txt.bz2


            and to read it the usual tools are available e.g.



            bzless somefile.txt.bz2





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            • Strangely the documentation is pretty good for bzip2.

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            You can do this with bzip2's -c option:



                   -c --stdout
            
              Compress or decompress to standard output.


            For example:



            command | bzip2 -c > some.txt.bz2


            And to decompress:



            bzip2 -dc < some.txt.bz2 | less





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              You can do this with bzip2's -c option:



                     -c --stdout
              
              Compress or decompress to standard output.


              For example:



              command | bzip2 -c > some.txt.bz2


              And to decompress:



              bzip2 -dc < some.txt.bz2 | less





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                You can do this with bzip2's -c option:



                       -c --stdout
                
              Compress or decompress to standard output.


                For example:



                command | bzip2 -c > some.txt.bz2


                And to decompress:



                bzip2 -dc < some.txt.bz2 | less





                share|improve this answer













                You can do this with bzip2's -c option:



                       -c --stdout
                
              Compress or decompress to standard output.


                For example:



                command | bzip2 -c > some.txt.bz2


                And to decompress:



                bzip2 -dc < some.txt.bz2 | less






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                    The bzip2 utility will compress stdin but won't write it to stdout if stdout is a terminal. You can though use standard output redirection techniques.



                    command | bzip2 >somefile.txt.bz2


                    and to read it the usual tools are available e.g.



                    bzless somefile.txt.bz2





                    share|improve this answer
























                    • Strangely the documentation is pretty good for bzip2.

                      – Iain
                      9 hours ago
















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                    The bzip2 utility will compress stdin but won't write it to stdout if stdout is a terminal. You can though use standard output redirection techniques.



                    command | bzip2 >somefile.txt.bz2


                    and to read it the usual tools are available e.g.



                    bzless somefile.txt.bz2





                    share|improve this answer
























                    • Strangely the documentation is pretty good for bzip2.

                      – Iain
                      9 hours ago














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                    The bzip2 utility will compress stdin but won't write it to stdout if stdout is a terminal. You can though use standard output redirection techniques.



                    command | bzip2 >somefile.txt.bz2


                    and to read it the usual tools are available e.g.



                    bzless somefile.txt.bz2





                    share|improve this answer













                    The bzip2 utility will compress stdin but won't write it to stdout if stdout is a terminal. You can though use standard output redirection techniques.



                    command | bzip2 >somefile.txt.bz2


                    and to read it the usual tools are available e.g.



                    bzless somefile.txt.bz2






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                    • Strangely the documentation is pretty good for bzip2.

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                    • Strangely the documentation is pretty good for bzip2.

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                    Strangely the documentation is pretty good for bzip2.

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