how to open a tar.gz file in linux code example

Example 1: bash command for unzipping tar.gz files

# Basic syntax:
tar -zxvf file.tar.gz

# Where:
#	- x tells tar to extract the files
#	- v tells the command to list all of the files in the archive
#	- z tells the tar command to uncompress the file (gzip)
#	- f tells tar that you are going to give it a file name to work with

Example 2: untar tar.gz

tar -xzf file.tar.gz

Example 3: unzip a tar.gz file in linux

tar -xvzf community_images.tar.gz

Example 4: how to unzip using tar

tar -xf archive.tar.gz

Example 5: open .tar.gz windows

gunzip.exe example.tar.gz

 tar.exe xf example.tar