Bunzip2
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An overview of how to use bunzip2, shamelessly cut and reformatted from Sathya Says -- if you find this useful, thank the original author.
tar/bzip2/bunzip2
For extracting archives, this command is useful for extracting to directories other than the home directory, where root privileges are required
- XO files downloaded via browse go into the journal, not the filesystem. As such, they're not named with normal extensions. How does tar/bzip/gzip work here?
Usage:
For GZipped files(.tar.gz extension)
tar xvfz <archive-name>
Eg: If the archive name is some-file.tar.gz, then the command will be
tar xvfz some-file.tar.gz
For Bzipped files (.tar.bz2 extension)
First, unzip the archive using
bunzip2 <archive-name>
Then untar using the command
tar xvf <archive-name>
Eg: If the archive is some-file.tar.bz2 then first unzip it using
bunzip some-file.tar.bz2
You’ll get the file some-file.tar. Next untar it using
tar xvf some-file.tar