Unix/Linux : How to open tar.gz file ?
It has been a while since I touched tar files( have been using Mac for long time) and couple of days back I need to open up a tar and gzipped file.
Need to do a tar -h
to see how to open up the tar.gz archive
Without much ado, the command to open a tar.gz file looks like this :
tar -zxvf nicephotos.tar.gz -C /nicephotos
Basically the command above is to :
-z Uncompress archive with gzip format
-x Extract the files in the archive
-v Verbose mode ( more information)
-f
Location of archive -C
<target dir>
Change to<target dir>
before processing remaining files (output files to the target directory)
Just in case you want to view the archive content before uncompressing. You can use this command
tar -tzvf nicephotos.tar.gz
- -t will list only entries that match( display everything)
Hope this short tutorial is useful for you.
See also : Unix/Linux : How to archive and compress entire directory ?
By Adam Ng
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