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On Windows: You can download a simple command line tool to do this. You can download the tool from here Usage can be found on the website but pasting it here too for convenience: C:\>TarTool.exe Usage : C:\>TarTool.exe sourceFile destinationDirectory C:\>TarTool.exe D:\sample.tar.gz ./ C:\>TarTool.exe sample.tgz temp C:\>TarTool.exe -x sample.tar temp TarTool 2.0 Beta supports bzip2 decompression for files with extensions like tar.bz2 and .bz2 . TarTool -xj sample.tar.bz2 temp or TarTool -j sample.bz2 Download TarTool 2.0 Beta from here Unpack a .txz file on Windows Use the 7zip tool  to unpack a .txz file on windows On Linux: You can use the bzip2 and tar combined to do this… for ex: bzip2 –cd <tar.bz_fileName> | tar –xvf - This will unpack the contents of the tar.bz file Happy Un-Tar-ing

Want to know your system name? /bin/uname -n Know where you are in your file system:  pwd  The command will print Present Working Directory How do you create a shortcut in linux? ln How to extract compressed files? tar Downloading from a link can't be faster on any other OS :)  wget Forgot which commands you ran? history Want to see whats your disk space usage? df  df -h gives human formatted listing Most important command to know more about the above commands - Need more help about the commands? man