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tar.bz2

What is a .tar.bz2 file?

application/x-bzip2

TAR.BZ2 is a tar archive compressed as one bzip2 byte stream. The canonical compound suffix describes both layers; .tbz2 is a common alias for the same bytes. A converter must finish bzip2 decoding before it can validate tar headers, member paths, padding, and archive termination.

How to use a .tar.bz2 file

Use an example .tar.bz2 file and its .tbz2 alias control to test suffix normalization, bzip2 CRC errors, tar member and checksum preservation, traversal defenses, and independent reopening of any generated archive output.

Convert a .tar.bz2 file to another format

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