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
How to uncompress tar.bz2 files in the command line 1
Posted by Sheldon Finlay
on May 28, 2009
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Just a note: If you want to preserve file permissions, use the “-p” flag, though I recommend using this as a non-root user. Also, if you prefer not to see a huge list of files scroll by, drop the “-v” flag.