Name
bzip2
Synopsis
bzip2 [options
]filenames
bunzip2 [options
]filenames
bzcat [option
]filenames
bzip2recoverfilenames
File compression and decompression utility similar to
gzip, but uses a different
algorithm and encoding method to get better compression. bzip2 replaces each file in
filenames with a compressed version of the
file and with a .bz2
extension
appended. bunzip2 decompresses
each file compressed by bzip2
(ignoring other files, except to print a warning). bzcat
decompresses all specified files
to standard output, and bzip2recover
is used to try to recover
data from damaged files.
Additional related commands include bzcmp, which compares the contents of bzipped files; bzdiff, which creates diff (difference) files from a pair of bzip files; bzgrep, to search them; and the bzless and bzmore commands, which apply the more and less commands to bunzip2 output as bzcat does with the cat command. See cat, cmp, diff, grep, less, and more for information on how to use those commands.
URL: http://www.bzip.org.
Options
-
--
End of options; treat all subsequent arguments as filenames.
-
-
dig
Set block size to dig × 100KB when compressing, where dig is a single digit from 1 to 9.
-
--best
Same as
-9
.-c
,--stdout
Compress or decompress to standard output.
-d
,--decompress
Force decompression.
-
--fast
Same as
-1
.-f
,--force
Force overwrite of output files. Default is not to overwrite. Also forces breaking of hard links to files.
-k
,--keep
Keep input files; don’t delete them.
-L
,--license
,-V
,--version ...
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