Extract zip, tar.gz, tar.bz2

There are so many ways to extract zip or tar.gz or tar.bz2. You can use GUI or command line. In this tutorial, I would like to show you how to extract compressed files using command line.

Extract zip file:

unzip file_name.zip

Extract tar.gz file:

tar -xzf file_name.tar.gz

or

tar -xvzf file_name.tar.gz

Extract tar.bz2 file:

tar -xjf file_name.tar.bz2

or

tar -xvjf file_name.tar.bz2

Notice in tar command, there is -v parameter. It tells the application to show the extracted files (verbose).

Those are the standard way to extract. If you need more functionality, just use man command.

man unzip

man tar

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Tags: Compress, Extract, Zip