tar extract files code example

Example 1: extract tar.gz ubuntu terminal

tar -xvf yourfile.tar.gz

Example 2: files tar.gz

tar -czvf name-of-archive.tar.gz /path/to/directory-or-file

Example 3: python extract tar file

import tarfile

#simple function to extract the train data
#tar_file : the path to the .tar file
#path : the path where it will be extracted
def extract(tar_file, path):
    opened_tar = tarfile.open(tar_file)
     
    if tarfile.is_tarfile(tar_file):
        opened_tar.extractall(path)
    else:
        print("The tar file you entered is not a tar file")
extract('/kaggle/input/gnr-638/train.tar.xz', '/kaggle/working/gnr-638')
extract('/kaggle/input/gnr-638/test_set.tar.xz', '/kaggle/working/gnr-638')

Example 4: unarchive tar acrhive

tar -xvf file.tar etc/resolv.conf
tar -xzvf file.tar.gz etc/resolv.conf
tar -xjvf file.tar.bz2 etc/resolv.conf

#Extract files into a specific folder
tar -xf archive.tar.gz -C /home/linuxize/files