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bash command for unzipping tar.gz files

# Basic syntax:
tar -zxvf file.tar.gz

# Where:
#	- x tells tar to extract the files
#	- v tells the command to list all of the files in the archive
#	- z tells the tar command to uncompress the file (gzip)
#	- f tells tar that you are going to give it a file name to work with

unzip tar.gz

tar -xvf file.tar.gz

unzip a tar.gz file in linux

tar -xvzf community_images.tar.gz

how to unzip tar.gz file

tar -xvf archive.tar.gz
or
tar -xf archive.tar.gz -C /home/linuxize/files