bzip3
A command-line compressor and library intended as a stronger successor to bzip2.
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Package managers
- Homebrew
brew install bzip3
About bzip3
bzip3 is a data compressor that its author describes as a better and stronger spiritual successor to bzip2. It includes the bzip3 command and bunzip3, plus helpers such as bz3cat, bz3grep and bz3less for reading compressed files directly.
It is built with autotools or CMake and also ships as a library with pkg-config and CMake files. It suits people who compress large text or source archives and want better ratios than bzip2.
Strengths
- Aims for better compression than bzip2
- Includes cat, grep and less style helper commands
- Also usable as a library
Limitations
- The .bz3 format is less widely supported than gzip or bzip2
- Command line only
Details
- Pricing
- FreeFree to use, with source code published on GitHub.
- License
- Open source, license not stated
- Developer
- iczelia
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line
- How it runs
- Downloadable app
- Account
- Not required
- Works offline
- Yes
- Best suited for
- Compressing large text and source archives from the terminal
- Categories
- Compression, CLI tools
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.
Alternatives to bzip3
Compare allSoftware that can replace bzip3 for an important use case, and what changes if you switch.
bzip2
A long-established command-line block-sorting compressor and library for .bz2 files.
bzip2 is the long-established predecessor with a stable format supported almost everywhere, but it aims for weaker compression than bzip3 and releases are rare.
XZ Utils
The standard command-line tool for creating and reading .xz files.
XZ Utils uses LZMA2 for strong compression ratios and ships on nearly every Linux and BSD system, though high levels are slow and memory-hungry.
Zstandard
Meta's compression tool that hits near-zlib ratios at far higher speed, now used across Linux and modern filesystems.
Zstandard focuses on speed with near-zlib ratios, is standardised in RFC 8878 and reads gzip, xz and lz4, with its maximum ratio below xz.
Lzip
A command-line lossless compressor using a simplified LZMA, designed for long-term archiving and data safety.
Lzip uses a simplified LZMA with integrity checking and recovery options aimed at long-term archiving, with a gzip-style command line.
GNU Gzip
The GNU command-line compression program that creates and decompresses .gz files.
GNU Gzip produces .gz files read almost everywhere with a simple command line, but it has a lower compression ratio and is single-threaded.
Similar software
Related functionality, not necessarily a direct replacement.
GNU Tar
The GNU command-line tool for creating, extracting, updating and listing tar archives.
bsdtar (libarchive)
Command-line archivers built on libarchive that read and write tar, zip, cpio, ISO and more.
7-Zip
The small, free archiver that opens practically every archive format and compresses better than ZIP.
