bzip2 - Howto Compress and Decompress .bz2 files

  • Posted by saucer
  • January 23, 2008

bzip2 (.bz2 files) is a free and open source (BSD-style license) lossless data compression algorithm and program developed by Julian Seward.

To compress a file using bzip2
bzip2 -d

To decompress or uncompress a .bz2 file
bunzip2

GNU tar supports a -j flag, which allows creation of tar.bz2 files
tar -cjf archivefile.tar.bz2 file-list

Decompressing in GNU tar:
tar -xjf archivefile.tar.bz2

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