| 1 | <sect2><title> </title><para> </para></sect2>
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| 3 | <sect2><title>Descriptions</title>
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| 4 |
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| 5 | <para>Last checked against version &bzip2-contversion;</para>
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| 7 | <sect3><title>Program files descriptions</title>
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| 9 | <sect4><title>bunzip2</title>
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| 10 | <para>bunzip2 decompresses files that are compressed with
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| 11 | bzip2.</para></sect4>
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| 12 |
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| 13 | <sect4><title>bzcat</title>
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| 14 | <para>bzcat (or bzip2 -dc) decompresses all specified files to the standard
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| 15 | output.</para></sect4>
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| 16 |
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| 17 | <sect4><title>bzcmp, bzdiff</title>
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| 18 | <para>bzcmp and bzdiff are used to invoke the cmp or the diff program on
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| 19 | bzip2 compressed files.</para></sect4>
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| 20 |
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| 21 | <sect4><title>bzegrep, bzfgrep, bzgrep</title>
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| 22 | <para>bzegrep, bzfgrep, and bzgrep invoke either egrep, fgrep, or grep
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| 23 | (respectively) on bzip2-compressed files.</para></sect4>
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| 24 |
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| 25 | <sect4><title>bzip2</title>
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| 26 | <para>bzip2 compresses files using the Burrows-Wheeler block sorting text
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| 27 | compression algorithm and Huffman coding. Compression is generally
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| 28 | considerably better than that achieved by more conventional LZ77/LZ78-based
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| 29 | compressors (such as the traditional <userinput>gzip</userinput> utility)
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| 30 | and approaches the performance of the PPM family of statistical
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| 31 | compressors.</para></sect4>
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| 32 |
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| 33 | <sect4><title>bzip2recover</title>
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| 34 | <para>bzip2recover recovers data from damaged bzip2 files.</para></sect4>
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| 35 |
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| 36 | <sect4><title>bzless</title>
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| 37 | <para>bzless is a filter which allows examination of compressed
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| 38 | or plain text files, one screenful at a time on a soft-copy
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| 39 | terminal, like less.</para></sect4>
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| 40 |
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| 41 | <sect4><title>bzmore</title>
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| 42 | <para>bzmore is a filter which allows examination of compressed
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| 43 | or plain text files, one screenful at a time on a soft-copy
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| 44 | terminal, like more.</para></sect4>
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| 45 |
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| 46 | </sect3>
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| 47 |
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| 48 | <sect3><title>Library files descriptions</title>
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| 49 |
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| 50 | <sect4><title>libbz2</title>
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| 51 | <para>libbz2 is the library for implementing lossless, block-sorting data
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| 52 | compression, using the Burrows-Wheeler algorithm.</para></sect4>
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| 53 |
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| 54 | </sect3>
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| 55 |
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| 56 | </sect2>
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