decompress tar.gz linux code example

Example 1: how to untar tar.gz

tar xvzf file.tar.gz

Example 2: bash command for unzipping tar.gz files

# Basic syntax:
tar -zxvf file.tar.gz

# Where:
#	- x tells tar to extract the files
#	- v tells the command to list all of the files in the archive
#	- z tells the tar command to uncompress the file (gzip)
#	- f tells tar that you are going to give it a file name to work with

Example 3: decompress tar.gz

tar -xvf file.tar.gz

Example 4: linux unpack tar.gz file

tar -zxvf file_name.tar.gz

Example 5: extract tar.gz

tar -xf archive.tar.gz

Example 6: unrachive .tar.gz

tar -xvzf community_images.tar.gz
Also, to extract in a specific directory

for eg. to extract the archive into a custom my_images directory .

tar -xvzf community_images.tar.gz -C my_images