unzip tar ubuntu 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: extract tar.gz ubuntu terminal

tar -xvf yourfile.tar.gz

Example 3: extract tar.gz linux command line

tar xvzf file.tar.gz

Example 4: how to unzip using tar

tar -xf archive.tar.gz

Example 5: unarchive tar acrhive

tar -xvf file.tar etc/resolv.conf
tar -xzvf file.tar.gz etc/resolv.conf
tar -xjvf file.tar.bz2 etc/resolv.conf

#Extract files into a specific folder
tar -xf archive.tar.gz -C /home/linuxize/files

Example 6: Unzip tar file

tar xvf spark-*