untar a tar file or gzip-bz2 tar file

• Mandar Shinde


• 3 Apr 2015

Tar file can come compressed or uncompressed. Generally that are compressed using gzip or bzip2. tar, will uncompress both types and extract the files from archive.

We can execute below command

– tar xvzf test.tar.gz – to uncompress a gzip tar file (.tgz or .tar.gz)

– tar xvjf test.tar.bz2 – to uncompress a bzip2 tar file (.tbz or .tar.bz2)

– tar xvf test.tar – to uncompressed tar file (.tar)

• x = eXtract, this indicated an extraction c = create to create )
• v = verbose (optional) the files with relative locations will be displayed.
• z = gzip-ped; j = bzip2-zipped
• f = from/to file … (what is next after the f is the archive file. The files will be extracted in the current folder