cli-tarHow do I extract a tar file with gzip?

To extract a tar file with gzip, you can use the following command:

tar -xzvf <file_name.tar.gz>

This command will extract the contents of the tar file into the current directory.

The parts of the command are:

• tar - the tar command
• -xzvf - flags to extract the tar file
• <file_name.tar.gz> - the name of the tar file you want to extract

The -x flag tells tar to extract the contents of the file. The -z flag tells tar to decompress the file using gzip. The -v flag tells tar to be verbose and display the progress of the extraction. The -f flag tells tar that you are giving it a file name.

After running the command, the contents of the tar file will be extracted into the current directory.

For more information, see the tar command man page.

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