untar the tar file code example

Example 1: how to untar tar.gz

tar xvzf file.tar.gz

Example 2: how to tar a file

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

Example 3: untar .tar file

tar -xvf yourfile.tar

Example 4: how to untar a tar file

tar -zxvf file_name.tar.gz