unzip tar.gz file code example

Example 1: bash command for unzipping tar.gz files

# Basic syntax:
tar -zxvf file.tar.gz

# Where:
#	- x tells tar to extract the files
#	- v tells the command to list all of the files in the archive
#	- z tells the tar command to uncompress the file (gzip)
#	- f tells tar that you are going to give it a file name to work with

Example 2: untar tar.gz

tar -xzf file.tar.gz

Example 3: linux unpack tar.gz file

tar -zxvf file_name.tar.gz

Example 4: extract tar.gz

tar -xf archive.tar.gz

Example 5: extract tar.gz linux command line

tar xvzf file.tar.gz

Example 6: tar.gz files

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