Why I can't uncompress a .bz2 file using tar?
You can't use the tar
command because the archive isn't a .tar.* file. To uncompress a bzip2 file, use the following command (this won't preserve the original .bz2 file):
bzip2 -d enwiki-latest-pages-articles.xml.bz2
If you want to extract it and keep the original, run this command:
bzip2 -dk enwiki-latest-pages-articles.xml.bz2
Source: https://superuser.com/questions/480950/how-to-decompress-a-bz2-file
Just use bunzip2
:
bunzip2 enwiki-latest-pages-articles.xml.bz2
And if its a gzip
commpressed file:
gunzip enwiki-latest-pages-articles.xml.gz