How to open tar.gz files

November 05, 2008


 
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:

  1. tar zxvf Surprise.tar.gz

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

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