Comments on: Unix 101 / Unzipping Files

By: gare

gare — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 19:32:20 +0000

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.

By: gbviswanadh

gbviswanadh — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 12:20:24 +0000

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

By: Manuel

Manuel — Mon, 18 May 2009 04:23:18 +0000

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.

By: Gare

Gare — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 14:47:06 +0000

To tar & zip on RH:

tar cvzf /home/ghome/myfiles.tgz myfilesdirectory

By: Gare

Gare — Sat, 19 May 2007 18:34:10 +0000

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