tarball extraction

Linux CLI Tarball extraction

BySumGuy 2013-05-272024-09-27

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

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