bzip2 Command Examples

A block-sorting file compressor. More information: https://manned.org/bzip2.

• Compress a file:

bzip2 {{path/to/file_to_compress}}

• [d]ecompress a file:

bzip2 -d {{path/to/compressed_file.bz2}}

• [d]ecompress a file to stdout:

bzip2 -dc {{path/to/compressed_file.bz2}}

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

bzip2 --test {{path/to/compressed_file.bz2}}

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

bzip2 --verbose {{path/to/compressed_files.bz2}}

• Decompress a file overwriting existing files:

bzip2 --force {{path/to/compressed_file.bz2}}

• Display help:

bzip2 -h