ubuntu uncompress tar.gz code example

Example 1: how to untar tar.gz

tar xvzf file.tar.gz

Example 2: untar tar.gz

tar -xzf file.tar.gz

Example 3: linux unpack tar.gz file

tar -zxvf file_name.tar.gz

Example 4: unzip a tar.gz file in linux

tar -xvzf community_images.tar.gz

Example 5: 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