extract tar.gz ubuntu code example

Example 1: how to untar tar.gz

tar xvzf file.tar.gz

Example 2: extract tar.xz ubuntu

tar -xf file.tar.xz

Example 3: 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 4: unzip tar.gz

tar -xvf file.tar.gz

Example 5: extract tar.gz ubuntu terminal

tar -xvf yourfile.tar.gz

Example 6: unzip a tar.gz file in linux

tar -xvzf community_images.tar.gz