Linux File Extensions

Samuel Thibault samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org
Tue Apr 27 06:46:22 EDT 2010


JP Jamous, le Tue 27 Apr 2010 06:23:27 -0400, a écrit :
> I run into this extension sometimes. What does it mean? Is this a compressed
> file or is it like a EXE in windows? ".tar.bz2"

It is a compressed file, like .zip files. Use

tar xjf file.tar.bz2

to uncompress it

Samuel



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