Questions related to the command line use of Linux. 11. I have a file called \'b

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  11. I have a file called 'backups.tar.bz2' in my home directory. I want to uncompress and unarchive the files in it. What single command would I use?   12. I have a file called tardigrade.bz2 and I want to uncompress it. What command would I use?   13. I want to search for all files in the directory ~/Desktop that contain the keyword "mount", case sensitive, and as the entire word. Words like amount, submount, demount, etc, should not be found in the results; just 'mount'. Additionally, I only want to see the name(s) of the file(s) that have matches as a result of running the command. What command would I use? Hate mail can be directed to /dev/null   14. I have a large file named bighead.txt and I want to view only the first 6 lines of the file. What command would I use?  

 15. Same as file as Question 14, but I want to view only the last 5 lines.  

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11. tar xvjf backups.tar.bz2 -C/home

12. tar xvjf tardigrade.bz2

13. ls *mount*

14. head -6 bighead.txt

15. tail -5 bighead.txt

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