How to extract .tar.bz2?

Question

I'm downloading an engine game file which is compressed as .tar.bz2.

I'm trying this command

tar -zxvf enginsxt.tar.bz2

And it throws an error. I know that command

tar -zxvf

is only for extracting .tar.gz files, but how can I decompress this one?

Answer 1

Have you checked the man page for tar?

Here is the part that I extracted from man page of tar for bz2:

-j, --bzip2
          filter the archive through bzip2

Remove -z from your options and (optionally) add -j to extract your tar archive correctly:

tar -xvjf enginsxt.tar.bz2