unzip tar.gz linux terminal 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: 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