How to untar/extract a tar.bz2/tar/tar.gz file

To untar/extract a file with different type of extensions , we need to use slightly different options:

1) .tar.bz2

 

            tar -jxvf xyz.tar.bz2

 

2) .tar

 

           tar -xf xyz.tar

 

3) .tar.gz

 

           tar -xzvf archive.tar.gz

 

4) .tar.bz

 

            tar -xzvf archive.tar.bz