A tar.bz2 file is a bzip2-compressed tar archive, which is a popular file format used in the Linux environment. It is typically used when a higher compression rate is desired at the cost of additional CPU processing time. This file format is an alternative to the more common tar.gz format, offering better compression but at the expense of increased resource usage during the compression and decompression processes.
tar.bz2 archive files can be extracted using the tar command-line utility, which is installed by default in most Linux distributions.
Related: How to extract tar.gz files in Linux
$ file file.tar.bz2 file.tar.bz2: bzip2 compressed data, block size = 900k
$ mkdir destination
cd destination/
$ tar --extract --bzip2 --verbose --file=/home/user/file.tar.bz2 #Simplified version: tar -xjvf /home/user/archive.tar.gz archive/ archive/subfolder-02/ archive/subfolder-02/filename-02 archive/subfolder-02/filename-01 archive/subfolder-01/ archive/subfolder-01/filename-02 archive/subfolder-01/filename-01
$ ls -R .: archive ./archive: subfolder-01 subfolder-02 ./archive/subfolder-01: filename-01 filename-02 ./archive/subfolder-02: filename-01 filename-02
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