You can answer some questions about commands by going to the terminal
and using the manual pages. In this case you would do
man bz2
which gives you a bit of info followed by how to use the bz2 command. In
the instructions they have a link to
http://www.bzip.org/
which also gives you details. Summary is, as you expected, it's another
file compressor although they claim much faster compression and
uncompression speeds among other advantages. Disadvantage is that it's
not as popular so if you send a bzip file to someone else they might not
know what to do with it.
CB
On 2/8/12 9:25 AM, Paul Erkens wrote:
Dear listers,
Subject says it all. How is bz2 different from zip? Can you generalize it by
saying that bz2 is simply another file compression format like rar etc? In
which cases is bz2 generally used?
Paul.
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