cli-tarHow do I unzip a tar file in Unix?

1. To unzip a tar file in Unix, you can use the tar command with the -x option.

2. For example, to unzip a file named mytarfile.tar, you can run the following command:

tar -xvf mytarfile.tar

3. The -x option tells the tar command to extract the contents of the file.

4. The -v option tells the tar command to verbosely list the files it is extracting.

5. The -f option tells the tar command to use the following argument as the name of the file to extract.

6. The output of the command should be a list of the files that were extracted from the tar file.

7. For more information, see the tar command manual page here.

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