bz3more(1)

💖 bz3more(1) 💖

okay bestie, so this is a page from the General Commands Manual and it's literally about a tiny little program called bz3more and honestly? it's giving "I just want to read my compressed files, why is this so hard" energy. spoiler: it's not hard. it's iconic. 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

bz3more — view bzip3-compressed files 🦋

that's it. that's the whole vibe. you've got a file that's been squished by bzip3 and you want to look at it without un-squishing it into a whole new file first. boom. bz3more. no cap.

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

bz3more [flags] [file ...]

so it's bz3more, then optionally some flags, then optionally one or more files. simple as. iykyk. 💅

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🌈 DESCRIPTION 🌈

okay so here's the tea, and it's genuinely simple tea, which is my favorite kind ☕✨

bz3more runs more(1) on your files — or on stdin — but first it decompresses them with bz3cat(1). so you get to page through the actual contents of your bzip3-compressed file, like a normal person reading a normal text file, instead of staring at compressed binary garbage and crying. 😭🫶

and the stdin thing? important. if you don't give it any file argument, it reads from stdin. so you can pipe stuff straight into it and it will still handle the decompression on the way through. main character energy fr fr.

quick recap so nobody gets lost: files given → decompressed with bz3cat(1) → fed to more(1). no files given → same thing but from stdin. periodt. 👑

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🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

• bzip3(1)
• more(1)

go read those too bestie, they're the supporting cast and they ate, honestly. 💖

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cute little sign-off moment 💜 this whole page is from version v1.5.5, dated 22 October 2026 — so yeah, she's fresh, she's current, she's slaying. 🧚✨ headed out, bye! 👋🍓