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