Tag: bzip

Decompress Bzip2 File

 September 13, 2008

Decompress a compressed tar archive in bzip2 tar -xvfj archive.tar.bz2tar -xvfj archive.tar.bz2

Create a Bzip2 File

 September 11, 2008

create a tarball compressed into bzip2 tar -cvfj archive.tar.bz2 dir

Read Tarballed Text File

 August 21, 2007

How to read a big text file that is tarballed – without extracting the whole thing… bzcat enwiki-20070802-pages-articles.xml.bz2 | head…