How can I extract abc.tar.bz2 file?

Question

I am planning to install IBM websphere community edition in Ubuntu.

Could you please suggest how can I extract the wasce_ibm60sdk_setup-3.0.0.4-ppc64linux.tar.bz2 file?

Answer 1

GNU tar (comes with Ubuntu) has the needed algorithm built within to detect the compression algorithm used on the archive file.

So you can just do:

tar -xf abc.tar.bz2

For verbosity, add -v:

tar -xvf abc.tar.bz2

If you want, you can let tar know that it is obviously a bzip2 compressed archive using -j (--bzip2):

tar -xvjf abc.tar.bz2

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If you are into BSD style syntax (without leading -) rather than the UNIX one:

tar xvjf abc.tar.bz2

Answer 2

As an alternative you can use:

bunzip2 abc.tar.bz2

to decompress the archive first, then use tar to extract it

tar -xfv abc.tar