Posts Tagged With: bzip

Decompress Bzip2 File

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Saturday, September 13th, 2008 11:40 PM

Decompress a compressed tar archive in bzip2


tar -xvfj archive.tar.bz2tar -xvfj archive.tar.bz2
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Create a Bzip2 File

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Thursday, September 11th, 2008 11:46 PM

create a tarball compressed into bzip2


tar -cvfj archive.tar.bz2 dir
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Read Tarballed Text File

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Tuesday, August 21st, 2007 10:51 PM

How to read a big text file that is tarballed - without extracting the whole thing…


bzcat enwiki-20070802-pages-articles.xml.bz2 | head -10

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