Verbosity option
saltedcoffii opened this issue · comments
all UNIX-style compressors that I've seen (i.e. gzip
, bzip2
, xz
, lzip
, pigz
, zstd
etc.,) map the -v
option (and maybe the --verbose
option) to a verbose output.
bzip3
doesn't seem to support verbose output yet, however it would be nice if one could, especially in batch mode, see the file that was being compressed as the program went through and compressed all of them. Here's an example of bzip2
doing this:
$ bzip2 -z -v *
bar: 1.318:1, 6.068 bits/byte, 24.15% saved, 1000000 in, 758525 out.
bat: 1.319:1, 6.066 bits/byte, 24.17% saved, 1000000 in, 758272 out.
baz: 1.318:1, 6.069 bits/byte, 24.13% saved, 1000000 in, 758668 out.
bee: 1.319:1, 6.067 bits/byte, 24.16% saved, 1000000 in, 758360 out.
foo: 1.319:1, 6.067 bits/byte, 24.16% saved, 1000000 in, 758367 out.
It would be nice if bzip3 could provide similar output.