Package bzip2
File compression utility
Bzip2 is a freely available, patent-free, high quality data compressor.
Bzip2 compresses files to within 10 to 15 percent of the capabilities
of the best techniques available. However, bzip2 has the added benefit
of being approximately two times faster at compression and six times
faster at decompression than those techniques. Bzip2 is not the
fastest compression utility, but it does strike a balance between speed
and compression capability.
Install bzip2 if you need a compression utility.
Version: 1.0.8
General Commands | |
| bunzip2 | alias for bzip2 |
| bzcat | alias for bzip2 |
| bzcmp | alias for bzdiff |
| bzdiff | compare bzip2 compressed files |
| bzegrep | alias for bzgrep |
| bzfgrep | alias for bzgrep |
| bzgrep | search possibly bzip2 compressed files for a regular expression |
| bzip2 | bzip2 compresses files using the Burrows-Wheeler block sorting text compression algorithm, and Huffman coding. |
| bzip2recover | alias for bzip2 |
| bzless | alias for bzmore |
| bzmore | file perusal filter for crt viewing of bzip2 compressed text |