> Use bunzip2 to decompress or tar -xjf xxx.tar.bz2 (the j may be an I on some
> systems)
This works with any version of GNU tar that supports bzip2 compression

tar tf xxx.tar.bz2 --bzip2


>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > I have a file that came from SuSE that has an extension xxx.tar.bz2
> >
> > It looks like some kind of compression algorithm has been
> > done on it.  What
> > does the .bz2 extension signify?
>

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