All of the below commands assume that you are within the same directory that the compressed file is in. To be sure type:
ls {enter}
If the file is there, you�re ready to go. If not type:
cd /big/dom/xdomain/www/directory/ {enter}
replacing the path with the correct path to your file.
If a file ends in .zip (for example, file.zip) type:
unzip file.zip
If a file ends in .tar (e.g., file.tar) type:
tar -xvf file.tar
If a file ends in .gz (for example, file.gz) type:
gzip -d file.gz
If a file ends in .tar.gz (e.g. file.tar.gz) type:
gzip -d file.tar.gz
and then
tar -xvf file.tar
If a file ends in .tgz (e.g. file.tgz) type:
tar -xvzf file.tgz
If file end in .bz2 type:
tar -xvfj file.tar.bz2
Thanks to http://www.aota.net/Telnet/unzip.php4
If it’s .tar.bz2, then you can use
Code:
tar xjvf cornbread.tar.bz2
to extract it all at once. If it’s just .bz2, then use
Code:
bunzip2 spankythefish.bz2
To tar & zip on RH:
tar cvzf /home/ghome/myfiles.tgz myfilesdirectory
For zip:
If you want extract and override all old files and creating the new files… try this:
unzip -uo joomla_update.zip
Where:
joomla_update.zip is your .zip file.
dear sir am working in linux os and i want to know how to extract file which are in for example abcd.zip.bz2 like that how i cant extract zip file, i know bizp2 -fd abcd.zip.bz2 and after that unzip abcd.zip, so is there any another command is there to unzip file
hello gbviswanadh,
The -j switch of tar command handles bzip2 files. So to unzip a .bz2 file use tar like this:
tar -xvfj file.tar.bz2
This should unzip the bzip2 zip, then extract the tarred file.