extracting tar.gz file in 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: unzip tar.gz

tar -xvf file.tar.gz

Example 4: install from tar gz file unix

tar -xzvf filename.tar.gz

Example 5: extract tar gz

tar -xvf archive.tar.gz

Example 6: 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

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