How to uncompress bzip2 files with .bz2 extensions.

Introduction

You may have created compressed backups using bzip2 and need to uncompress them.

The command to uncompress a .bz2 extension file is bunzip.

Procedure

Let's say in /home you have a file named mydb-sql.bz2 and you need to uncompress the file because it's a sql dump you want to restore.

the command to uncompress that file is

bunzip /home/mydb-sql.bz2