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Compress and Extract Files in Linux

Extract: .tar.bz2 To extract a tar (Tape ARchiver) file, type the following in the shell prompt: 1tar xvjf yourFileName.tar.bz2 Which will untar it to the current directory. Depending on the file structure that being compressed, it might create sub-directories. Parameters: … Continue reading

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