How To Open a Tar.gz File In Unix

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tar -zxvf data.tar.gz

-z : Uncompress the resulting archive with gzip command.
-x : Extract to disk from the archive.
-v : Produce verbose output i.e. show progress and file names while extracting files.
-f data.tar.gz : Read the archive from the specified file called data.tar.gz.


is the file just gzipped?

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gzip -d mydata.doc.gz

Need to create a tarball that is gz zip compressed?

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tar -zcvf archive_name.tar.gz directory_to_compress

tar it in tmp directory of files/folders in current folder:

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tar -zcvf /tmp/archive_name.tar.gz  .