how to extract a tar gz file to a directory in linux code example

Example 1: create tar gz file from directory

tar -czf tarball.tar.gz my_directory/

Example 2: how to extract tar.gz

If your tar file is compressed using a gzip compressor, use the following command to extract it.

    $ tar xvzf file.tar.gz
    
If your tar file is compressed using a bZip2 compressor, use the following command to extract it.

    $ tar xvjf file.tar.bz2