bzip2
high-quality block-sorting file compressor - utilities
Command lineUtilities
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Commands in the package
bzip2bunzip2bzcatbzcmpbzdiffbzegrepbzexebzfgrepbzgrepbzip2recoverbzlessbzmore
About bzip2
From Debian's package description
bzip2 is a freely available, patent free, data compressor.
bzip2 compresses files using the Burrows-Wheeler block-sorting text compression algorithm, and Huffman coding. Compression is generally considerably better than that achieved by more conventional LZ77/LZ78-based compressors, and approaches the performance of the PPM family of statistical compressors.
The archive file format of bzip2 (.bz2) is incompatible with that of its predecessor, bzip (.bz).
From Debian's description of the bzip2 package, under that package's license.
Dependencies
Depends on
libbz2-1.0libc6
Related apps
XarchiverCreate, extract and modify archives- pbzip2parallel bzip2 implementationCommand line
- lbzip2fast, multi-threaded bzip2 utilityCommand line
- msortutility for sorting records in complex waysCommand line
- plzipparallel, lossless data compressor based on the LZMA algorithmCommand line
- pixzparallel, indexing XZ compressor/decompressorCommand line
Sources and licenses
- Name: the Debian package name.
- Summary: Debian's short description of the bzip2 package, under that package's license.
- Description: Debian's description of the bzip2 package, under that package's license.
- Versions and sizes: Debian's archive for ARM64, as on packages.debian.org.
- Popularity: Debian Popularity Contest counts.
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