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# Bzip2

## Contents

The Bzip2 packages contains the bzip2, bunzip2, bzcat and bzip2recover programs.

## Description

### Bzip2

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.

### Bunzip2

Bunzip2 decompresses files that are compressed with bzip2.

### bzcat

bzcat (or bzip2 -dc) decompresses all specified files to the standard output.

### bzip2recover

bzip2recover recovers data from damaged bzip2 files.

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