Many users facing an issue because of unknown tar.bz2 extensions while extracting file and receive a error like
Message log:
gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
To resolve the above error simply, refer following command to extract the file.
tar -xvjf filename
Replace filename which you want to extract.
Explanation of command
x – Extract
v – Verbose output
j – Deal with bzipped file
f – Read from a file, rather than a tape device
If you required more information, than simply use following command to know more options available with “tar” command.
“tar –help”
