# bzip2
> A block-sorting file compressor.
- Compress a file:
`bzip2 {{path/to/file_to_compress}}`
- Decompress a file:
`bzip2 -d {{path/to/compressed_file.bz2}}`
- Decompress a file to standard output:
`bzip2 -dc {{path/to/compressed_file.bz2}}`