How to extract tar.gz and tar.bz2 files in Ubuntu 12.04

Now we are going to see how to extract the most common tar files : tar.gz and tar.bz2.

gz: GNU zip
bz2: bunzip2

In order to extract the files with the following extensions we will use the command "tar"

For extracting gz files:

tar -xzvf filename.gz


For extracting bz2 files

tar -xjvf filename.bz2

For more details you can do man tar in your command line