tldr/pages/common/bzip2.md

bzip2

A block-sorting file compressor.

• Compress a file:

bzip2 {{path/to/file_to_compress}}

• Decompress a file:

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

• Decompress a file to standard output:

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