cli-tarHow do I use a gzip tar file example?

A gzip tar file is an archive file that contains multiple files in a compressed format. To use a gzip tar file, you must first extract the files from the archive. This can be done with the tar command.

For example, to extract the files from a gzip tar file named example.tgz, you can use the following command:

tar -xzf example.tgz

The -x flag tells the command to extract the files, the -z flag tells the command to use gzip compression, and the -f flag tells the command the filename of the archive.

The command will extract the files from the archive into the current directory.

The parts of the command are:

• tar: The tar command is used to extract files from an archive.
• -x: This flag tells the command to extract the files.
• -z: This flag tells the command to use gzip compression.
• -f: This flag tells the command the filename of the archive.
• example.tgz: This is the name of the gzip tar file.

For more information about the tar command, see the GNU tar manual.

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