Extracting zip & bz2 - different commands?

[Schultz]

I use the terminal command sudo unzip to unzip a particular .zip archive into a password protected folder. Does this command not work on tar.bz2 archives? I tried it to update my Firefox ESR version but it failed. I did get the new FF-esr installed by extracting the Firefox folder into a non-password protected folder and then repacking it into a .zip file and then running "sudo unzip." But that's tedious. Is there a different command for .bz2 archives?

[jimallyn]

http://logicassembly.com/linux/decompre ... tm?ext=bz2

I usually do them from the file manager: right click, Extract here. More information available on doing it from the command line by entering man tar in a terminal. Not sure how the password protected folder affects the normal operation of tar or the file manager.

[Hoser Rob]

I always do that from file manager ... I hit "extract here" unless there's something different needed. Had enough CLI in the 80s.

[Schultz]

Okay, but how to download the bz2 into a password protected folder? I got a message from my browser telling my I couldn't download there.

[jimallyn]

How do you get anything else into the password protected folder? You could download it to your Downloads folder, then transfer it to the password protected folder the same way you put anything else in there.

[Schultz]

Okay, thanks. Just looking to do this in the least amount of steps as possible.