ubuntu tar.gz extract code example

Example 1: unzip tar.gz

tar -xvf file.tar.gz

Example 2: extract tar.gz

tar -xf archive.tar.gz

Example 3: 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