Linux tar.gz file

A tarball (tar.gz file) is compressed tar archive.

The TAR program provides the ability to create tar archives, as well as various other kinds of manipulation. For example, you can use the Tar on previously created archives-extract files, to-store additional files, or to update or L ist files which were already stored.

　Syntax　

TarOptionsfile.Tar. GZ TarOptionsfile.Tar . GZ PatternTar-xffile.Tar. GZ Tar-xvffile.Tar. GZ Tar-zxvffile.Tar. GZ Tar-zxvffile.Tar.GZfile1 file2 Dir1 Dir2

　　Extract tar.gz File

Extract one or more members from an archive, enter:

tar -zxvf {file.  Tar. GZ}

If your tarball name is backup.tar.gz, enter the following at a shell prompt to extract files:

Tar backup.tar.gz

Extract resume.doc file from backup.tar.gz tarball, enter:

Tar backup.tar.gz Resume.doc

Where,

　　- Z : Work on gzip compression automatically when reading archives

-x:extract Archives

　　- v : produce verbose output i.e. progress and extracted file list on screen

　　- F : Read The archive from the archive to the specified file.

-t:list the files in the archive

　

Extracting an entire archive

To extract a entire archive, specify the archive file name only, with no individual file names as arguments.

Tar backup.tar.gz

List Files in Archive

To view a detailed table of contents (List of file), enter:

Tar backup.tar.gz

Linux tar.gz file