bunzip2 (decompress bz2 files)

Decompresses one or more files that were compressed using bzip2. Removes the extension .bz2 from the decompressed file.

Format:    bunzip2 filenames
Examples:  bunzip2 file1.txt.bz2 file2.txt.bz2 ...

After decompression, the file is renamed to file1.txt, file2.txt, etc.

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