How to Untar a Tar.Bz File in Unix

How can I untar a tar.bz file in unix?

use the -j option of tar.

tar -xjf /path/to/archive.tar.bz

How to extract a .tar.gz file on UNIX

You must either run the command from the directory your file exists in, or provide a relative or absolute path to the file. Let's do the latter:

cd /home/jsmith
mkdir cw
cd cw
tar zxvf /home/jsmith/Downloads/fileNameHere.tgz

How to uncompress a tar.gz in another directory

gzip -dc archive.tar.gz | tar -xf - -C /destination

or, with GNU tar

tar xzf archive.tar.gz -C /destination

how to Extract tar Files?

You are running tar xzvf, which extracts a compressed tar, but the filename given is tar, which is just a tar file, not compressed. Try without the z.

tar xvf ...

How to untar all .tar.gz with shell-script?

for f in *.tar.gz
do
  tar zxvf "$f" -C /path/tar
done

Uncompress tar.gz file

Use -C option of tar:

tar zxvf <yourfile>.tar.gz -C /usr/src/

and then, the content of the tar should be in:

/usr/src/<yourfile>

How to extract a set of *.tar.gz.(letters) files?

These files have been split into chunks for distribution, so you need to put them back together before you can see whether Winrar or 7-zip will be able to extract them.

Since you're using Windows, you probably want to the Powershell get-content command (which helpfully aliased to cat btw) - and since the files are chunks of a compressed archive you probably want to use the -raw argument too.

https://shellgeek.com/use-cat-equivalent-type-command-in-windows/ is a good page to read.

I would try something like this as a starting point:

PS C:\> get-content -raw dicom_v1.tar.gz.* > dicom_v1.tar.gz

According to https://pureinfotech.com/extract-tar-gz-files-windows-10/ you should be able to run tar with the z flag natively in Powershell to extract all the files from the dicom archive.

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