Linux CLI Tarball extraction
Need to extract a bzip2 or gzip file? well here’s how to do it :
Bzip2 in the file.bz2 format :
- bunzip2 file.bz2
a tar file with bzip2 compression :
- tar xjvf file.tar.bz2
A tar file with no compression :
- tar xvf file.tar
A tar file with Gzip compression :
- tar zxvf file.tar.gz
- tar zxvf file.tgz
A 7zip file :
- 7z x file.7z
- 7z x file.zip
Rar Files :
- unrar x file.rar