unpack .gz ubuntu commando code example

Example 1: how to decompress gzip file in linux

gunzip -k file.gz

Example 2: 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