extract targz code example
Example 1: 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 2: extract tar gz
tar -xvf archive.tar.gz
Example 3: untar gz file ubuntu
#Untar to the specific dirctory -C qualifier for customized directory
#You must cd into the directory containg the file first
tar -xf archive.tar.gz -C /home/linuxize/files
#Untar specific files from archive.tar.gz
tar -xf archive.tar.gz file1 file2
Example 4: extract tar gz
tar xvzf file.tar.gz