How to Unzip file .tar.gz on hosting?

Mujkanovic · Nov 18, 2020

After backup my website on cpanel, i got this file type, filename.tar.gz . How to unzip this file in SSH? I can not use Unzip command in ssh to unzip .gz file.

Kaz Wolfe · Nov 18, 2020

To extract a tar.gz file, you need to use this command with extra parameters --extract (-x) option and specify the archive file name after the f option:

Code:

tar -xf filename.tar.gz

fiz · Nov 18, 2020

Mujkanovic said:
After backup my website on cpanel, i got this file type, filename.tar.gz . How to unzip this file in SSH? I can not use Unzip command in ssh to unzip .gz file.

You are supposed to use this file to restore your backup through WHM. If you are on shared hosting then you can ask your provider to restore it for you. If you want to extract something manually then you can run the following command to extract files from the archive.

Bash:

tar -zxvf file_name.tar.gz

In case you want to extract it to a specific directory use the following:

Code:

tar -C /home/backups/ -zxvf file_name.tar.gz

You can replace /home/backups/ with your desired path.

Mujkanovic · Nov 19, 2020

Why commands have -xf and-zxvf, which case should I use one of them?
I tried to unzip a .tar.gz file and it only consumed some seconds to unzip 3 GB data, it is more faster than unzip command

createcraig · Nov 24, 2020

@Mujkanovic, these are flags in tar. You can type man tar in Linux shell to see the commands.

The -x flag for the tar command means extract
The -z command means to gzip. Normal .tar files you don't need this, but with .tar.gz you need to use gzip to unzip.
The -v command means to do it verbosely, so it shows you what is being unzipped.
The -f command means force, so do not ask you "Are you sure you want to do this?"

Sathya narayana · Nov 25, 2020

Hi there,
We will cover the compression and extraction method of popular archive formats, including .tar.gz, .tar, .zip, and .rar.

.tar.gz Files

You can use the command below to compress several files into a .tar.gz archive:tar -czvf archive-name.tar.gz your-file.text your-file.php your-file.html
If you intend to compress an entire directory, use the following method.
Don’t forget to replace “archive-name” and “your-file” with your actual file names and directories. Also, you are not limited to file formats that are used in this example.
tar -czvf archive-name.tar.gz /Directory-Name
To extract a .tar.gz archive, enter:tar -zxvf archive-name.tar.gz

.tar Files

The syntax for creating .tar archives is as follows:tar -zcf archive-name.tar your-file.php your-file.php your-file.html
Enter the following line to move the whole directory to a .tar file:
tar -zcf archive-name.tar.gz /directory-name
You can extract the previous archive by typing this command:tar -xvf archive-name.tar

.zip Files

For .zip files, we’ll be using the zip command instead of tar. Here’s how you create an archive in this format:zip archive-name.zip your-file.php your-file.php your-file.php
In order to compress a directory, use this syntax:
zip -r archive-name.zip /directory-name
This command is used for .zip file decompression:unzip archive-name.zip

.rar Files

The command for RAR compression is rar, as shown below:rar a archive-name.rar your-file.txt your-file.php your-file.html
To put an entire folder into one .rar archive, you should use this syntax.
rar a archive-name.rar /directory-name
This is how you extract the .rar archive.unrar x archive-name.rar

budgetvm · Nov 27, 2020

Mujkanovic said:
After backup my website on cpanel, i got this file type, filename.tar.gz . How to unzip this file in SSH? I can not use Unzip command in ssh to unzip .gz file.

tar -xvzf filename.tar.gz should extract your backup files. All your website files will be under the folder homedir

sam@12 · Nov 5, 2021

Hello,

Following is the extract command with explanation.

tar -zxvf file_name.tar.gz

The -x flag for the tar command means extract
The -z command means to gzip. Normal .tar files you don't need this, but with .tar.gz you need to use gzip to unzip.
The -v command means to do it verbosely, so it shows you what is being unzipped.
The -f command means force, so do not ask you "Are you sure you want to do this?"

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