compress_bz2

Compresses a stream of bytes using bz2 compression.

compress_bz2 [level=int]

Description

The compress_bz2 operator compresses bytes in a pipeline incrementally.

level = int (optional)

The compression level to use. The supported values depend on the codec used. If omitted, the default level for the codec is used.

Examples

Export all events in a Bzip2-compressed NDJSON file

export
write_ndjson
compress_bz2
save_file "/tmp/backup.json.bz2"

Recompress a Bzip2-compressed file at a different compression level

load_file "in.bz2"
decompress_bz2
compress_bz2 level=18
save_file "out.bz2"