Bzip2 (File Format)

Basic Information

Parent Format: Byte

MIME Name: application/x-bzip2 (non-standard)

Suffix： .bz2

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• Bzip2

Introduction

Bzip2 is a file format compressed by algorithms such as BWT. It is mainly used for single file compression. To compress multiple files, Tar must be used. Hence the .tar.bz2 suffix is often formed.