How to open tar.gz files



 
Here's the simple way to how to open tar.gz files using the command line in Linux or Unix.

Let's assume that you have a file named Surprise.tar.gz and you want to extract it's contents. The simple command to open this file and extract it's contents is this:

tar zxvf Surprise.tar.gz

That's it. There's nothing more to do.

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