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This gist tests if a bzip file is complete. Since bzip2 --test actually decompresses the file (it's a real file test) it takes time and CPU. This shell snippet just looks for the bzip2 end-of-stream marker (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bzip2#File_format). This was helpful when I was rsync'ing a directory of large bzip2 files over an unreliab…
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| tail -c 12 filename.bz2 |od -t xC| sed 's/ //g' | grep -q -E '2ee48a70a120|177245385090|5dc914e14240|bb9229c28480' |
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