How To Extract Files From A .Tar.Bz2 Or .Tar.Gz File On Linux
What Does .tar.gz and .tar.bz2 Mean? Files that have a .tar.gz or a .tar.bz2 extension are compressed archive files. A file with just a .tar extension is uncompressed, but those will be very rare. The .tar portion of the file extension stands for tape archive, and is the reason that both of these file types are called tar files. Tar files date all the way back to 1979 when the tar command was created to allow system administrators to archive files onto tape....