Test Files That Will Be Unzipped with bunzip

Test Files That Will Be Unzipped with bunzip

-t

Before bunzipping a file (or files) with bunzip, you might want to verify that they're going to bunzip correctly without any file corruption. To do this, use the -t (or --test) option.

$ bunzip2 -t paradise_lost.txt.gz $ 

Just as with gunzip, if there's nothing wrong with the archive, bunzip2 doesn't report anything back to you. If there's a problem, you'll know, but if there's not a problem, bunzip2 is silent.