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bofh468 · 5 years ago

Another useful switch is -j for handling bzip2 compression. To do the same as above for a bzip-compressed tarball:

tar xjf filename.tar.bz2
barretj · 4 years ago

another usefull tar command is this:

tar czvf tarball.tar.gz /tmp/tarball

this will tar and gzip the directory /tmp/tarball into the file tarball.tar.gz
santhosh · 5 months ago

i got the following error when i extracted.
gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors.
Plz suggest any way to extract in linux?
smeezekitty · 2 months ago

santhosh are you sure its not a bzip not gzip