untar gz linux code example

Example 1: how to untar tar.gz

tar xvzf file.tar.gz

Example 2: untar gz file

tar -xvf archive.tar.gz

Example 3: linux extract tgz

tar zxvf file.tgz

Example 4: untar tar.gz

tar -xzf file.tar.gz

Example 5: untar gz file ubuntu

#Untar to the specific dirctory -C qualifier for customized directory
#You must cd into the directory containg the file first
tar -xf archive.tar.gz -C /home/linuxize/files
#Untar specific files from  archive.tar.gz
tar -xf archive.tar.gz file1 file2