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bunzip2

Decompresses files compressed with bzip2

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Verified: 2026-05-13

Syntax

$bunzip2 [OPTIONS] FILE.bz2

Optionen

-k

-f

-v

Examples

$bunzip2 archive.bz2

$bunzip2 -k archive.bz2

$bunzip2 *.bz2

See also

bzip2 tar xz

Typical use cases

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Standard usage

bunzip2 --help

Note Alias/frontend for extracting .bz2 files.

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