Macintosh Terminal Pocket Guide

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bzip2 — stdin stdout - file -- opt --help --version

bzip2 [options] [files]

The bzip2, bunzip2, and bzcat commands compress and uncompress files in Burrows-Wheeler format. Compressed files have the suffix .bz2.

`bzip2` `file`	Compress `file` to create `file.bz2`. Original `file` is deleted.
`bzip2 -c` `file`	Produce compressed data on standard output.
`cat` `file` `\| bzip2`	Produce compressed data from a pipeline.
`bunzip2` `file``.bz2`	Uncompress `file.bz2` to create `file`. Original `file.bz2` is deleted.
`bunzip2 -c` `file``.bz2`	Uncompress the data on standard output.
`cat` `file``.bz2 \| bunzip2`	Uncompress the data from a pipeline.
`bzcat` `file``.bz2`	Uncompress the data on standard output.

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