bzip2
Sign in to savebzip2 is a file format and a file compression program. The program uses the Burrows–Wheeler algorithm to compress and decompress a single file using the bzip2 file format. libbzip2 is a lossless data compression software library used by the bzip2 program.
Key facts
- Software.name
- bzip2 (software)
- Software.logo
- File:Bzip2-logo.png
- Software.author
- Julian Seward
- Software.latest release version
- 1.0.8
- Software.operating system
- Unix-like, Windows
- Software.genre
- Data compression
- Software.license
- Modified zlib license
- Software.website
- (1.0.x)
- Software.repo
- (1.0.x) (1.1.x)
- File format.name
- bzip2 (file format)
- File format.extension
- .bz2
- File format.mime
- application/x-bzip2
- File format.uniform type
- public.bzip2-archive
- File format.owner
- Julian Seward
- File format.type code
- Bzp2
- File format.genre
- Data compression
- File format.open
- Yes
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bzip2 is a file format and a file compression program. The program uses the Burrows–Wheeler algorithm to compress and decompress a single file using the bzip2 file format. libbzip2 is a lossless data compression software library used by the bzip2 program.
bzip2 is not a file archiver and thus relies on separate external utilities such as tar for tasks such as handling multiple files, and other tools for encryption, and archive splitting.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “bzip2” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.