Type man tar for more information, but this command should do the trick: tar -xvzf community_images.tar.gz To explain a little further, tar collected all the files into one package, …

May 26, 2011 · 1389 To extract an archive to a directory different from the current, use the -C, or --directory, tar option, as in tar -xf archive.tar -C /target/directory Note that the target directory has to …

Jul 27, 2012 · Open the tar in Archive Manager from Nautilus, go down into the folder hierarchy to find the file you need, and extract it. On a server or command-line system, use a text-based file manager …

Dec 10, 2015 · Have you checked the man page for tar? Here is the part that I extracted from man page of tar for bz2: -j, --bzip2 filter the archive through bzip2 Remove -z from your options and (optionally) …

2 Right click on the tar.gz file and select the extract here option from the drop-down menu, and it will be extracted on the same folder as the compressed file.

Mar 24, 2016 · GNU tar by default stores relative paths. Whether an archive uses relative paths can be checked by running tar -tf archive | head -n 1, which will print the path of the first file in the archive; if …

Dec 19, 2013 · I want to see the contents (list of files and folders) of an archive, for example a tar.gz file without extracting it. Are there any methods for doing that?

Jan 15, 2025 · The Linux command tar stands for tape archive, Which is used to create a archive on a tape backup (or a file) and also extract files from that archive. In your case it is a backup saved to a file.

Jul 19, 2014 · The above command will extract the contents of the mongodb-linux-x86_64-2.6.3.tgz archive while preserving the archive's hierarchical tree directory structure. A similar command …

Jan 3, 2012 · I'm used to extracting tarballs with a -xfz flag, which handles gzip and bzip2 archives. Recently I've run into a .tar.xz file and I would like to uncompress it in one step using tar, how can I do...