Unpack a .tar.gz archive

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You can unpack a .tar.gz file into the current directory like this:

tar -xzvf archive.tar.gz

The options used are

-x
: Extract

-z
: Unzip

-f
: Process a file input

-v
: Be verbose, i.e. print each extracted file

Side notes:

  • The dash is optional (tar xzvf ... works as well).
  • For .tar.bz2 archives, use j instead of z (tar xjvf ...`)
  • In order to create a *.tar.gz archive, use -c flag instead of -x flag.
  • The order of parameters matters.
Henning Koch
Last edit
Jakob Scholz
Keywords
file, extract, gzip, untar
License
Source code in this card is licensed under the MIT License.
Posted by Henning Koch to makandra dev (2011-06-12 18:12)