Compressing and Decompressing Files

To decompress tar.gz (tgz) do (tar combines multiple files in a directory to a single file and gz compresses it)

• tar xzvf filename

To compress to tar.gz do

• tar czvf filename.tgz directory/

To decompress bz2 files do

• bunzip2 filename.bz2
• if it is tar.bz2 then do tar -xjvf filename.tar.bz2

To compress into tar.bz2 do

• tar cjvf filename.tar.bz2 directory/