How to decompress a .bz2 file
Try the following:
bzip2 -d filename.bz2
Note, that this command will not preserve original archive file.
To preserve the original archive, add the -k
option:
bzip2 -dk filename.bz2
To explain a bit further, a single file can be compressed with bzip2
thus:
bzip2 myfile.txt
tar
is only required when compressing multiple files:
tar cvjf myfile.tar.bz *.txt
Hence, when uncompressing a .bz2
file use bunzip
, when uncompressing a tar.bz2
file use tar xjvf
.
Use the bunzip2
(or bzip2 -d
) command to decompress the file. For more information see this man page,