On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 10:26:00 +0100, Mark Adams wrote:
> You need to specify -c with pbzip2 to have it compress to stdout I
> believe. If you just run it by itself;
>
> pbzip2
> pbzip2: *ERROR: Won't write compressed data to terminal. Aborting!
>
> pbzip2 -h
>
> Usage: pbzip2 [-1 .. -9] [-b#cdfhklm#p#qrS#tVz] <filename> <filename2>
> <filenameN>
I'm not familiar with bpzip2 specifically, but note that the error
message includes the words "to terminal", which makes me think it
probably acts like gzip and bzip2. In the case of those programs, at
least, the compression command actually behaves differently when run
with stdout connected to a terminal as opposed to within a pipe:
$ echo "some content" | gzip
gzip: compressed data not written to a terminal. Use -f to force compression.
For help, type: gzip -h
$ echo "some content" | gzip | cat
[actual compressed data here ...]
$ echo "some content" | bzip2
bzip2: I won't write compressed data to a terminal.
bzip2: For help, type: `bzip2 --help'.
$ echo "some content" | bzip2 | cat
[actual compressed data here ...]
Nathan
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