Using the tar command on Linux to uncompress tar.gz files with the command line.

The tar command on Linux is very useful for uncompressing files on your Linux machine. The most used command on a Linux system is uncompressing files that you have downloaded from an Internet source. The tar -xvf command will uncompress a tar.gz file. ~$ tar -xvf myfile.tar.gz~$ tar -xvf myfile.tar.gz To uncompress a tar.bz2 file … Read more