Extract tar the tar.bz2 file error

Question

I tried to extract the tar.bz2 file in Fedora 17 OS. I used the command:

# tar -xvjf myfile.tar.bz2

I received this error message:

Answer 1

For bz2 you need to execute like this,

tar -jxvf

Alternatively, you can also execute like this

bunzip2 myfile.tar.bz2

For more information you should check it,

tar --help

If in doubt, run file on the archive to make sure it actually is compressed in bz2 format.