This is a quick guide for different commands to decompress different types of files. Most of them can just be obtained from readin man page of tar command.
- .tar.gz – command$: tar xvfz file.
Tag: tar
June 22, 2009
June 12, 2009
how to extract a .tar.bz2 file?
@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)
