SHELL

decompress tar.gz

tar -xvf file.tar.gz

tar gz compress extract

# compress
tar -czvf projects.tar.gz projects/
# extract
tar -xzvf projects.tar.gz

-c, --create
      create a new archive
-x, --extract, --get
      extract files from an archive
-z, --gzip, --gunzip --ungzip
-v, --verbose
      verbosely list files processed
-f, --file ARCHIVE
      use archive file or device ARCHIVE

tar [-] A --catenate --concatenate | c --create | d --diff --compare | --delete | r --append | t --list |
    --test-label | u --update | x --extract --get [options] [pathname ...]

tar.gz extract

tar -xf archive.tar.gz

linux extract tar.gz

tar –xvzf documents.tar.gz

extract tar.gz

tar -xf archive.tar.gz

extract tar.gz

 tar -zxvf {file.tar.gz}

tar.gz extract

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

extracting tar.gz

tar –xvf documents.tar