Download To download the file at http://heanet.archive.gnewsense.org/gnewsense/cdimage/gnewsense-livecd-deltah-2.1.iso.torrent in command-line, do: wget http://heanet.archive.gnewsense.org/gnewsense/cdimage/gnewsense-livecd-deltah-2.1.iso.torrent To continue an interrupted download: wget -c url-to-myfile Extraction To extract a compressed tar file (or tarball): tar -xzf myfile.tar.gz # extract (-x) using gzip (-z) file (-f) "myfile.tar.gz" tar -xvzf myfile.tar.gz # -v: verbose tar -xjf myfile.tar.bz2 #