Uncompress tar.gz tar.bz2 the easy way.

Usually uncompressing a tar'ed compressed file requires the use of two utility and pipe '|' through each other. Today, I found an easy way to to that.

Traditionally,

to extract tar.bz2 , we use bzip2 -cd files.tar.bz2 | tar xvf - and so with .gz files

the easy way is this way,

tar xvzf file-1.0.tar.gz - to uncompress a gzip tar file (.tgz or .tar.gz)

tar xvjf file-1.0.tar.bz2 - to uncompress a bzip2 tar file (.tbz or .tar.bz2)

tar xvf file-1.0.tar - to uncompressed tar file (.tar)

x = eXtract, this indicated an extraction c = create to create )
v = verbose (optional) the files with relative locations will be displayed.
z = gzip-ped; j = bzip2-zipped
f = from/to file ... (what is next after the f is the archive file)

Try out, cause i've already try it out and it works.

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