How to uncompress tar.bz2 files in the command line 1

Posted by Sheldon Finlay on May 28, 2009

I confess that I can never remember the syntax for this myself. I know there is a j and an x flag in there somewhere. So I’m adding this for myself as much as for everyone else who can’t keep this syntax straight.

  tar -jxvf filename.tar.bz2