cli-tarHow do I open a tar.gz file using the command line?
The tar.gz
file format is a combination of two different technologies, tar
and gzip
. tar
is a program used to store multiple files in a single file, while gzip
is a program used to compress files.
To open a tar.gz
file using the command line, you can use the following command:
tar -xvzf <filename>.tar.gz
This command will extract the files within the tar.gz
archive.
The command consists of four parts:
tar
: The program used to extract the files from the archive-x
: Tellstar
to extract the files-v
: Tellstar
to display a verbose output-z
: Tellstar
to unzip the archive-f
: Tellstar
which file to extract
For more information, you can refer to the following links:
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