Compression Commands

bzip2 Linux Command

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

What does bzip2 do?

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

bzip2 filename

bzip2 largefile.txt

Decompresses a .gz file back to its original form.

Decompresses a .bz2 file back to its original form.

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

Creates a compressed ZIP archive of files and directories.

Archives multiple files into a single tarball. Use -czf to compress with gzip.

Extracts files from a ZIP archive.