How to uncompress tar.gz?

Dopani · Oct 23, 2017

I got a file called file.tar.gz from my hosting. How can I uncompress this file on a Centos server from command line? I want all the files extracted the the current directory that I am in. I imagine this would work for Windows?

austenite · Oct 23, 2017

Navigate to the directory you're using containing the archive then run tar -xzvf file.tar.gz

Obviously you need to replace file.tar.gz with the name of your archive.

Kamley · Oct 23, 2017

I think you can try typing this command:
$ tar xvzf file.tar.gz -C /path/to/somedirectory
It should extract to your current directory.

24x7serverman · Oct 24, 2017

That's correct!

Use the command tar -xvzf your_tar_file_name o the path where you would like to extract it. It will extract the file.

8COREHOST · Oct 29, 2017

you can unzip using this commend tar -xzvf yourfilename.tar.gz

Maxoq · Nov 4, 2017

Dopani said:
I got a file called file.tar.gz from my hosting. How can I uncompress this file on a Centos server from command line? I want all the files extracted the the current directory that I am in. I imagine this would work for Windows?

Make sure that your file.tar.gz is in your current folder, you can use this command ll to check files in a folder

After that type:

gzip -d file.gz

For other file formats, you can use these commands

zip file

Code:

unzip file.zip

tar file

Code:

tar -xvf file.tar

gz or tar file

Code:

gzip -d file.tar.gz

and then

Code:

tar -xvf file.tar

tgz file

Code:

tar -xvzf file.tgz

Hope that helped.

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