cli-tarHow do I open a tar.gz file in the terminal?
To open a tar.gz file in the terminal, first you need to unzip the file using the command tar -xzvf <filename>
. This command will extract the files from the tar.gz archive.
tar -xzvf myarchive.tar.gz
x file1.txt
x file2.txt
x file3.txt
The tar
command has several flags:
-x
tells tar to extract files from an archive-z
tells tar to decompress the archive using gzip-v
tells tar to list the files it is extracting-f
tells tar the name of the archive file
After the files are extracted, you can access them in the current directory.
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