Command-line tool

bzip3

brew/bzip3

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Better and stronger spiritual successor to BZip2

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Type

Command-line tool

Install on

Windows, macOS, Linux

Last checked

25 Oct 2026, 21:09 UTC

Install it

Windows

scoop bucket add extras; scoop install extras/bzip3

macOS

brew install bzip3

Linux

brew install bzip3

Compress a file

bzip3 path/to/file_to_compress

Decompress a file

bzip3 -d path/to/compressed_file.bz3

Decompress a file to `stdout`

bzip3 -dc path/to/compressed_file.bz3

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