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tar shows "is not a bzip2 file" error when uncompressing a .tar.bz file

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Problem

I've a data_or.tar.bz file I tried to extract it with Output is Can only files be extracted with command? -- update

Error Output

bzip2: (stdin) is not a bzip2 file.
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

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Fix for: tar shows "is not a bzip2 file" error when uncompressing a .tar.bz file

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Your tarball is uncompressed. The extension is obsolete and misleading. You can decompress using the following command: What probably happened here is that was created with the switch (or ) that chooses the compression algorithm from the supplied ex…

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