bunzip2

Decompress bzip2 compressed files

TLDR

Decompress a file (removes the .bz2 original)

$ bunzip2 [file.txt.bz2]

Decompress keeping the compressed file

$ bunzip2 -k [file.txt.bz2]

Decompress to stdout (useful for piping)

$ bunzip2 -c [file.txt.bz2] > [file.txt]

Test file integrity without decompressing

$ bunzip2 -t [file.txt.bz2]

Force overwrite of existing output files

$ bunzip2 -f [file.txt.bz2]

bunzip2 decompresses files compressed with bzip2. It's equivalent to `bzip2 -d` and removes the .bz2 file after successful decompression.The tool is a companion to bzip2 for extracting compressed files.

PARAMETERS

-k, --keep

Keep compressed file

-f, --force

Overwrite existing files

-c, --stdout

Write to standard output

-t, --test

Test file integrity

-v, --verbose

Verbose mode

-q, --quiet

Suppress warnings

-s, --small

Reduce memory usage at the cost of speed (uses about 2.5 MB per file)

INSTALL

sudo apt install bzip2

sudo dnf install bzip2

sudo pacman -S bzip2

sudo apk add bzip2

sudo zypper install bzip2

brew install bzip2

nix profile install nixpkgs#bzip2

CAVEATS

Removes original .bz2 file unless -k used. Requires memory proportional to compression block size. Cannot decompress corrupted files.

HISTORY

bunzip2 was included with bzip2 since its creation by Julian Seward in 1996.