how unzip tar.bz2 in linux

Open a terminal and type:
tar xvjf filename.tar.bz2
Which will untar it to the current directory. Normally (99% of the time) it will create it’s own subdirectory so you don’t need to worry about that.
Just so you know:
tar – Tape ARchiver
And the options:

• x – extract
• v – verbose output (lists all files as they are extracted)
• j – deal with bzipped file
• f – read from a file, rather than a tape device

“tar –help” will give you more options and info

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