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 …

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 …

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 …

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.

Nov 8, 2013 · A .tar file is an archive, similar to a .zip file. It is compressed. As with a .zip file, you have to extract (decompress) the contents. You can extract the contents with any of several …

Jul 19, 2014 · Great add also the option to extract files contained in archive.tar.gz to a new directory named archivetar --extract --file /path/to/file.tgz --one-top-level. That's often the …

Nov 10, 2014 · How you compile a program from a source Open a console Use the command cd to navigate to the correct folder. If there is a README file with installation instructions, use …

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 …

Oct 9, 2019 · You should concatenate (cat) the split tar-gz files, decompress them (gunzip) and extract the tar archive (tar -x). You can extract split .gz archives directly using the zcat …