bzip2 & bunzip2 Flashcards
1
Q
bzip2
A
bzip2 compresses files using the Burrows-Wheeler block sorting text compression algorithm, and Huffman coding.
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2
Q
bzip -s
A
-s, –small, Reduce memory usage, for compression, decompression, and testing.
3
Q
bzip -z
and
bzip -d
A
- z, –compress, Forces compression.
- d, –decompress, Forces decompression.
4
Q
bzip2
- c
- f
- q
- t
- v
A
- c, –stdout, Write on stdout, keep original files unchanged.
- f, –force, Force overwrite of output files.
- q, –quiet, Suppress all warnings.
- t, –test, Test compressed file integrity.
- v, –verbose
5
Q
bunzip2
A
bunzip2 (or bzip2 -d) decompresses all specified files.
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