BZNEW(1)

🎀 NAME 🎀

Okay bestie, welcome to BZNEW(1) from the General Commands Manual — yes, the manual name is literally the title, and the command is bznew. She’s here to recompress .gz or .tgz files to .bz2 files, periodt. 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

The whole call is giving:

bznew [ -ftv9PK] [ name.gz ...  ]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

bznew recompresses files from .gz (gzip) format to .bz2 (bzip2) format. Slay.

If you want to recompress a file that’s already in bzip2 format, rename the file to force a .bz2 extension, then apply bznew. No cap, that’s the move. 🫶

💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -f — Force recompression from .gz to .bz2 format even if a .bz2 file already exists. She said “I’m doing it anyway.” 💀
• -t — Tests the new files before deleting originals. Safety first, icon behavior.
• -v — Verbose. Display the name and percentage reduction for each file compressed. She’s gonna tell you everything. 🗣️
• -9 — Use the slowest compression method (optimal compression). Slow and thorough, main character energy.
• -P — Use pipes for the conversion to reduce disk space usage. Lowkey space-saving queen. 🧚
• -K — Keep a .gz file when it is smaller than the .bz2 file. If the old one ate, she stays. 👑

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• bzip2(1)
• gzip(1)

💀 BUGS 💀

bznew does not maintain the time stamp with the -P option if cpmod(1) is not available and touch(1) does not support the -r option. So yeah, that timestamp can get ghosted. 😭

Final sign-off, bestie: the footer is just BZNEW(1) — no separate source/version string and no date line to copy, so that’s the whole footer vibe. Byeee 🎀💖