PBZIP2 Automator action and workflow/service for Mac OS X

About

PBZIP2 (Parallel BZIP2) is a parallel implementation of the bzip2 block-sorting file compressor that uses pthreads and achieves near-linear speedup on SMP machines by Jeff Gilchrist.

This package provides two things: an Automator action and a system service implemented as Automator workflow. Automator action bundles PBZIP2 binary and provides an easy-to-use wrapper for it, so it can be used as part of any Automator workflow. System service integrates the Automator action into the Mac OS X system (Services menu and Finder's contextual menu).

Bundled version of PBZIP2 is 1.1.1.

Download

PBZIP2-Action-and-Service.tbz2 (80 KB). Requires Mac OS X 10.6.

Installation

  1. Copy "Create PBZIP2 Archive.action" to ~/Library/Automator/
  2. Copy "Compress with PBZIP2.workflow" to ~/Library/Services/

Result:
Service screenshot

Contact

If you have any questions or feedback, contact Nikita Zhuk directly by mail - nikita at zhuk dot fi. I'm also on Twitter.