Unpack

How to unpack compressed files with the various different extentions.

.tar.gz

To uncompress a .tar.gz file, execute the following command:

 tar -xzfv filename.tar.gz

.gz

To uncompress a gzip file, execute the following command:

gunzip filename.txt.gz     

.tar

To uncompress a tar file, execute the following command:

tar -xvf example.tar

streaming tar to another server

see Backup streaming tar

.bz2

To uncompress a bzip2 file, execute the following command:

bunzip2 filename.txt.bz2     

.zip

To uncompress a zip file , execut the following command:

unzip filename.zip