cli-tarHow do I extract a tar.bz2 file using the command line?
To extract a tar.bz2 file using the command line, use the following command:
tar -xvjf <file_name>.tar.bz2This will extract the contents of the tar.bz2 file into the current directory.
The parts of this command are as follows:
tar: The tar command is used to create, manipulate, and extract files that are archived in the tar format.-x: This flag tells tar to extract the contents of the file.-v: This flag tells tar to be verbose and display the progress of the extraction.-j: This flag tells tar to use bzip2 for compression.-f: This flag tells tar to use the file specified after it.
For more information on the tar command, see the following link:
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