To gunzip and untar a file in a single step, use the following-note that the z switch is the important one that tells tar to unzip it. It's easy to gunzip or even bunzip2 the files with a simple command-line switch.

(Note that it may be necessary to unpack some files twice.) If you would rather follow the UNIX-style instructions below you can use the Terminal command-line application, which can be found in your Utilities folder zip file automatically when you double-click on its icon. A tar archive file contains uncompressed byte streams of the files which it contains Mac OS X will unpack a. This file is used for archiving data on Unix or Linux systems and for exchanging files on the internet. To extract a tar.bz2 file, use the -extract (-x) option and specify the archive file name after the -f option: tar -xf 2 First bzip2 uncompresses and then tar archive extracts it. This option tells tar to display the names of the files being extracted on the terminalĮxtract tar.bz2 File By default the tar utility comes pre-installed in most Linux distro and macOS. For more verbose output use the -v option. Windows users will need a tool named 7zip to extract tar.bz2 files. Go to your root folder where your file (.tar.bz2) is stored by using command cd To extract (unzip) a tar.bz2 file simply right-click the file you want to extract and select Extract. Another way of doing it is from the terminal. It'll automatically unzip your file irrespective of the extension. You don't have to do anything except double clicking that file. In mac there is a simple way of doing that. Of course you can also decompress bz2 archives from the command line with either the bzip2 or bunzip2 commands: bzip2 -d file.bz2. Some versions of tar even support creating bz2 archives natively with the -j flag, but that doesn't appear to be implemented in Mac OS X.

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