package compress/bzip2
Golang compress/bzip2.NewReader() function usage example. For decompressing .bz2 file.
package main
import (
"compress/bzip2"
"fmt"
"io"
"os"
)
func main() {
inputFile, err := os.Open("file.txt.bz2")
if err != nil {
fmt.Println(err)
os.Exit(1)
}
defer inputFile.Close()
outputFile, err := os.Create("file.txt")
if err != nil {
fmt.Println(err)
os.Exit(1)
}
defer outputFile.Close()
bzip2reader := bzip2.NewReader(inputFile)
if err != nil {
fmt.Println(err)
os.Exit(1)
}
io.Copy(outputFile, bzip2reader)
}
Reference :
https://golang.org/pkg/compress/bzip2/#NewReader
