how to unzip tgz file code example
Example 1: how to extract tgz file in linux
tar zxvf file_name.tgz
where,
-z : Uncompress the resulting archive with gzip command
-x : Extract to disk from the archive
-v : Produce verbose output i.e. show progress and file names while extracting files
-f backup.tgz : Read the archive from the specified file called backup.tgz
Example 2: unzip .tgz
tar -xvzf archive.tgz