compress and decompress a tar gz file linux command line code example

Example 1: how to untar tar.gz

tar xvzf file.tar.gz

Example 2: unrachive .tar.gz

tar -xvzf community_images.tar.gz
Also, to extract in a specific directory

for eg. to extract the archive into a custom my_images directory .

tar -xvzf community_images.tar.gz -C my_images