linux uncompress 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: linux extract tgz

tar zxvf file.tgz

Example 3: compress to tgz linux

tar -cvzf <name of tarball>.tgz /path/to/source/folder