nbdkit-bzip2-filter(1)

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version 1.48.1 · 9 versions
, in fedora 44

💅 nbdkit-bzip2-filter(1) — decompress a .bz2 file 🎀

okay so bestie, welcome to the manual page for nbdkit-bzip2-filter, part of the NBDKIT crew. it's a filter, it unzips your bz2 vibes on the fly, it's giving transparent decompression realness. let's get into it ✨

✨ NAME ✨

nbdkit-bzip2-filter — decompress a .bz2 file 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

nbdkit file --filter=bzip2 FILENAME.bz2

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

nbdkit-bzip2-filter is a filter for nbdkit(1) and it transparently decompresses a bzip2-compressed file. no cap. you just stack this filter on top of nbdkit-file-plugin(1) and boom, your local .bz2 file is decompressed like it was never compressed at all 🫶

heads up: the filter only allows read-only connections. that's it, that's the boundary. periodt.

now, lowkey the tea about bzip2: these files are not very good for random access in large files because seeking to a position in the bzip2 file means decompressing all the data before that point in the file. every single byte. the whole journey. 😭 if you wanna compress large disk images, a more practical method is to use xz(1) or plzip(1) — both nbdkit-xz-filter(1) and nbdkit-lzip-filter(1) support block-level decompression if the file was compressed using the right options 👑

and to allow seeking, this filter has to keep the contents of the complete uncompressed file, which it does in a hidden temporary file under $TMPDIR. iconic behaviour, honestly 🧚

🎀 PARAMETERS 🎀

there are no parameters specific to this filter. literally none. nothing to configure. just vibes 💜

🌈 ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES 🌈

  • TMPDIR — because the bzip2 format is not seekable, this filter has to store the complete contents of the compressed file in a temporary file located in /var/tmp by default. you can override this location by setting the TMPDIR environment variable before starting nbdkit. slay 💅

⭐ FILES ⭐

  • $filterdir/nbdkit-bzip2-filter.so — the plugin. that's the one, the main character 🔥

use nbdkit --dump-config to find the location of $filterdir. iykyk 🌟

🦋 VERSION 🦋

nbdkit-bzip2-filter first appeared in nbdkit 1.40. it is derived from the nbdkit-gzip-filter which first appeared in nbdkit 1.22. glow-up lineage fr fr 💖

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

nbdkit-file-plugin(1), nbdkit-gzip-filter(1), nbdkit-lzip-filter(1), nbdkit-tar-filter(1), nbdkit-xz-filter(1), nbdkit(1), nbdkit-plugin(3). the whole friend group 🫂

👑 AUTHORS 👑

Georg Pfuetzenreuter Richard W.M. Jones

Copyright Georg Pfuetzenreuter Copyright Red Hat

💀 LICENSE 💀

redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

  • Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
  • Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
  • Neither the name of Red Hat nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

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