I'm downloading an engine game file which is compressed as .tar.bz2.

I'm trying this command

tar -zxvf enginsxt.tar.bz2

And it throws an error. I know that command

tar -zxvf

is only for extracting .tar.gz files, but how can I decompress this one?

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Have you checked the man page for tar?

Here is the part that I extracted from man page of tar for bz2:

-j, --bzip2 filter the archive through bzip2

Remove -z from your options and (optionally) add -j to extract your tar archive correctly:

tar -xvjf enginsxt.tar.bz2

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