bzip3 Command Examples

An efficient statistical file compressor. More information: https://github.com/kspalaiologos/bzip3.

• Compress a file:

bzip3 {{path/to/file_to_compress}}

• [d]ecompress a file:

bzip3 -d {{path/to/compressed_file.bz3}}

• Decompress a file to stdout ([c]):

bzip3 -dc {{path/to/compressed_file.bz3}}

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

bzip3 --test {{path/to/compressed_file.bz3}}

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

bzip3 --verbose {{path/to/compressed_files.bz3}}

• Decompress a file overwriting existing files:

bzip3 -d --force {{path/to/compressed_file.bz3}}

• Display help:

bzip3 -h