## Copyright (C) 2008, 2009 Thorsten Meyer
## (based on gzip.m by David Bateman)
##
## This file is part of Octave.
##
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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {Function File} {@var{entries} =} bzip2 (@var{files})
## @deftypefnx {Function File} {@var{entries} =} bzip2 (@var{files}, @var{outdir})
## Compress the list of files specified in @var{files}.
## Each file is compressed separately and a new file with a '.bz2' extension
## is created.  The original files are not touched.  Existing compressed files 
## are silently overwritten.If @var{outdir} is defined the compressed versions 
## of the files are placed in this directory.
## @seealso{bunzip2, gzip, zip, tar}
## @end deftypefn

function entries = bzip2 (varargin)

  if (nargin == 1 || nargin == 2)
    if nargout == 0
      __xzip__ ("bzip2", "bz2", "bzip2 %s", varargin{:});
    else
      entries = __xzip__ ("bzip2", "bz2", "bzip2 %s", varargin{:});
    endif      
  else
    print_usage ();
  endif

endfunction

%!xtest
%!  # test for correct cleanup of temporary files
%!  unwind_protect
%!    filename = tmpnam;
%!    dummy    = 1;
%!    save(filename, "dummy");
%!    n_tmpfiles_before = length(find(strncmp("oct-", cellstr(ls(P_tmpdir)), 4)));
%!    entry = bzip2(filename);
%!    n_tmpfiles_after = length(find(strncmp("oct-", cellstr(ls(P_tmpdir)), 4)));
%!    if (n_tmpfiles_before != n_tmpfiles_after)
%!      error("bzip2 has not cleaned up temporary files correctly!");
%!    endif
%!  unwind_protect_cleanup
%!    delete(filename);
%!    [path, basename, extension] = fileparts(filename);
%!    delete([basename, extension, ".bz2"]);
%!  end_unwind_protect
