unzip tar.xz cli 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: unzip tar.xz linux

tar -xf archive.tar.xz -C /home/linuxize/files