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Sponsored by: Search | Newsletter | Conference | Tech Jobs O’Reilly’s Emerging Technology Conference: May 13-16, 2002 Articles Linux Apache MySQL Perl PHP Python BSD Essentials What is LAMP? The Best of ONLamp.com aboutSQL Big Scary Daemons FreeBSD Basics HTTP Wrangler Linux in the Enterprise Linux Network Administration The Linux Professional Perl P5P Digest Archive PHP Admin Basics PHP Phanatics Python_News Security Alerts Alphabetical Directory of Linux Commands This directory of Linux commands is from Linux in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition. Click on any of the 379 commands below to get a description and list of available options. All links in the command summaries point to the online version of the book on Safari Tech Books Online. Buy it now Read it online bzip2 [options] filenames bunzip2 [options] filenames bzcat [option] filenames bzip2recover filenames File compression and decompression utility similar to gzip, but uses a different algorithm and encoding method to get better compression. bzip2 replaces each file in filenames with a compressed version of the file and with a .bz2 extension appended. bunzip2 decompresses each file compressed by bzip2 (ignoring other files, except to print a warning). bzcat decompresses all specified files to standard output, and bzip2recover is used to try to recover data from damaged files. Options — End of options; treat all subsequent arguments as filenames. -dig Set block size to dig x 100KB when compressing, where dig is a single digit from 1 to 9. -c, –stdout Compress or decompress to standard output. -d, –decompress Force decompression. -f, –force Force overwrite of output files. Default is not to overwrite. Also forces breaking of hard links to files. Sponsored by: