Compression Commands

bunzip2 Linux Command

Decompresses a .bz2 file back to its original form.

What does bunzip2 do?

Decompresses a .bz2 file back to its original form.

bunzip2 filename.bz2

bunzip2 largefile.txt.bz2

Compresses files using the bzip2 algorithm (better compression than gzip, slower).

Creates a compressed ZIP archive of files and directories.

Decompresses a .gz file back to its original form.

Extracts files from a ZIP archive.

Compresses a single file using the gzip algorithm (replaces original with .gz).

Compresses files using the xz (LZMA2) algorithm — very high compression ratio.