Extracting compressed files in linux
Reference
To extract a tar.bz2 file, use the command (note the j option)
tar -jxvf filename.tar.bz2
To extract a tar.gz file, the the command (note the z option)
tar -zxvf filename.tar.gz
Reference
To extract a tar.bz2 file, use the command (note the j option)
tar -jxvf filename.tar.bz2
To extract a tar.gz file, the the command (note the z option)
tar -zxvf filename.tar.gz