cli-tarHow do I unpack a tar file using the terminal?
To unpack a tar file using the terminal, you can use the command tar -xvf <tarfile>
. This command has the following parts:
tar
: the command to invoke the tar program-x
: the flag to extract files from an archive-v
: the flag to display progress and file names while extracting-f
: the flag to specify the tar file<tarfile>
: the path to the tar file
For example:
tar -xvf my_archive.tar
x file1.txt, 0 bytes, 0 tape blocks
x file2.txt, 0 bytes, 0 tape blocks
x directory1/file3.txt, 0 bytes, 0 tape blocks
The output above shows that three files have been extracted from the tar file.
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