Decompress Bzip2 File
Decompress a compressed tar archive in bzip2
tar -xvfj archive.tar.bz2tar -xvfj archive.tar.bz2
Decompress a compressed tar archive in bzip2
tar -xvfj archive.tar.bz2tar -xvfj archive.tar.bz2
create a tarball compressed into bzip2
tar -cvfj archive.tar.bz2 dir
How to read a big text file that is tarballed – without extracting the whole thing…
bzcat enwiki-20070802-pages-articles.xml.bz2 | head -10