cli-tarHow do I unzip a tar file in Unix?
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To unzip a tar file in Unix, you can use the
tar
command with the-x
option. -
For example, to unzip a file named
mytarfile.tar
, you can run the following command:
tar -xvf mytarfile.tar
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The
-x
option tells thetar
command to extract the contents of the file. -
The
-v
option tells thetar
command to verbosely list the files it is extracting. -
The
-f
option tells thetar
command to use the following argument as the name of the file to extract. -
The output of the command should be a list of the files that were extracted from the tar file.
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For more information, see the
tar
command manual page here.
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