Extracting files from bz2 , tar.gz, zip, and other archives

[keen_prat]

Hi..
I am not new to linux but I mostly do my work on graphical interface.. So can any one tell me how i can decompress the files in tar.gz , bz2, zip and other archieve in linux using command line ?

Thank you!..

[neo]

ok u may use tar
the typical syntax is
 

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tar -xvzf <filename>

[keen_prat]

what about bz2 ? will it use the same tar -xvzf <filename> ?

[aaa]

for tar only: tar -xvf file.tar
for tar.gz : tar -xvzf file.tar.gz
for gzip only: gzip -d file.gz
for bzip2 : bzip2 -d file.bz2
for zip: unzip file.zip

[wittyguysuku]

Hi Frndz,
           Why should we use different file formats?
           Which one is best?

Thanks in advance,
Suku

[Ricky]

basically files with bz2 are the smallest ie.. having highest compression.. and tar.gz is the most common one..

[dragoncity99]

Also there is one format know as .tgz which we call a  tarball. It's normally used in Slackware. But in other distros it's still usable.

tgz : gunzip filename.tgz | tar -xvf

[wittyguysuku]

How to pack some number of files into a single pack?
How to compress the files?

Please give me detailed How to?  :idea:

Thanks,
Suku

[yesgokul]

To compress a folder named fld1 u need to use

tar -cvvjf  fld1.tar.bz2  fld1


Thats it.... pls not its not a necessity to give fld1.tar.bz2, u can give any name but to distinguish it as a bz2 file we name it so.

for tar.gz files

tar -cvvzf fld1.tar.gz fld1

the best place to know more is,

open a terminal & shoot "man tar"

u'll find all the options there.....

Thanks
Gokul