unarchive tar.gz linux code example

Example 1: extract tar.gz ubuntu terminal

tar -xvf yourfile.tar.gz

Example 2: extract tar gz

tar -xvf 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

Example 4: how to unzip using tar

tar -xf archive.tar.gz