tldr/pages/common/bzip2.md

bzip2

A block-sorting file compressor. See also: bzcat, bunzip2, bzip2recover. More information: https://manned.org/bzip2.

• Compress a file:

bzip2 {{path/to/file_to_compress}}

• Decompress a file:

bzip2 {{[-d|--decompress]}} {{path/to/compressed_file.bz2}}

• Decompress a file to stdout:

bzip2 {{[-dc|--decompress --stdout]}} {{path/to/compressed_file.bz2}}

• Test the integrity of each file inside the archive file:

bzip2 {{[-t|--test]}} {{path/to/compressed_file.bz2}}

• Show the compression ratio for each file processed with detailed information:

bzip2 {{[-v|--verbose]}} {{path/to/compressed_files.bz2}}

• Decompress a file overwriting existing files:

bzip2 {{[-f|--force]}} {{path/to/compressed_file.bz2}}

• Display help:

bzip2 {{[-h|--help]}}