how to extract a .tar.bz2 file?

June 12, 2009

by viggy — Categories: Uncategorized — Tags: command, extract, tar — Leave a comment

@courtsey http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/linux-newbie/28238-how-can-i-extract-tar-bz2-file.html#post143394

bunzip2 .tar.bz2 which unzips to .tar

tar -tvf .tar (view contents in tar file)
tar -xvf .tar (extract contents in tar file)

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