cli-tarHow do I use a gzip tar ball?
A gzip tarball is a file that contains multiple files and folders that have been compressed together into a single file. To use a gzip tarball, you first need to extract it using the tar
command.
The syntax for extracting a gzip tarball is as follows:
tar -xzvf <tarball-name>.tar.gz
This command will extract the contents of the tarball into the current directory.
The parts of the command are as follows:
-x
: extract files from the tarball-z
: use gzip to decompress the tarball-v
: verbose output (optional)-f
: use the following file as the tarball
For example, if the tarball is called example.tar.gz
, the command would look like this:
tar -xzvf example.tar.gz
This command will create a new folder containing the files and folders contained in the tarball.
For more information about using tarballs, see the GNU tar manual.
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