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Package: bzip2

Description: high-quality block-sorting file compressor - utilities
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).
Homepage: https://sourceware.org/bzip2/
copyright | changelog | Debian changelog

Manual pages:

bunzip2(1) bzcat(1) bzcmp(1)
bzdiff(1) bzegrep(1) bzexe(1)
bzfgrep(1) bzgrep(1) bzip2(1)
bzip2recover(1) bzless(1) bzmore(1)

Other documents:

/usr/share/doc/bzip2

Other packages built from the same source:

libbz2-1.0

Manual page search:

bzcmp(1) bzdiff(1) bzegrep(1)
bzfgrep(1) bzgrep(1) bzip2(1)
bzip2recover(1) bzless(1) bzmore(1)

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