lies. not specifying -e displays an error message:
% bzip3 -e -j 6 -b 50 corpus/calgary.tar
% bzip3 -j 6 -b 50 corpus/calgary.tar
bzip3 - A better and stronger spiritual successor to bzip2.
Copyright (C) by Kamila Szewczyk, 2022. Licensed under the terms of GPLv3.
Usage: bzip3 [-e/-d/-t/-c] [-b block_size] input output
Operations:
-e: encode
-d: decode
-t: test
Extra flags:
-c: force reading/writing from standard streams
-b N: set block size in MiB
-j N: set the amount of parallel threads
you can use bzip3 as a filter:
% cat corpus/calgary.tar | bzip3 -b 10 -e -c | wc -c
807959
and using "-j6" is simply being unable to read the help page.
