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Linux - Is there a way to convert .bz2 files to .tar.bz2 files using pipes?

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Is there a way to convert a .bz2 file to a .tar.bz2 file without decompressing the entire thing to disk and then re-compressing? The decompressed size is larger than my drive. Since bz2 operates on blocks, it would seem like you could just decompress a block, pipe it, re-compress it, remove the dec…

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Update: My original answer doesn't work at all, sorry. won't accept a data stream from STDIN as input, so the first command fails. The only way I can think of to accomplish what you want is to write your own program to add the required headers and s…

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