How to Unzip Tar.bz2
- 1). Right-click on the desktop in Linux and select "Terminal" from the context menu; it opens the command prompt window ("terminal").
- 2). Type the command "cd directory name" in the terminal to navigate to the folder that contains the compressed "tar.bz2" file.
- 3). Type the command "bunzip2 filename.tar.bz2" and press "Enter" to uncompress it and get a file without the extension "bz2". For example, if the compressed file is "report.tar.bz2," then use the command "bunzip2 report.tar.bz2" to get the file "report.tar."
- 4). Type the command "tar -xf filename.tar" ("tar -xf report.tar" in our example) and press "Enter" to extract files from the archive.
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