Command-line tool

bzip2

brew/bzip2

Checked 25 Oct 2026, 21:09 UTC · Listing refreshed from Homebrew, winget, npm, Scoop and cargo; npm packages checked against OSV.dev

Freely available high-quality data compressor

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At a glance

Type

Command-line tool

Install on

Windows, macOS, Linux

Last checked

25 Oct 2026, 21:09 UTC

Install it

Windows

scoop install bzip2

macOS

brew install bzip2

Linux

brew install bzip2

Compress a file

bzip2 path/to/file_to_compress

Decompress a file

bzip2 -d path/to/compressed_file.bz2

Decompress a file to `stdout`

bzip2 -dc path/to/compressed_file.bz2

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