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tar extract gz

# compress
tar czvf < archive_name >.tar.gz < path >
# extract
tar xzvf < archive_name >.tar.gz
tar xzvf < archive_name >.tar.gz  -C /home/usera/tmp

extract from tar gz into folder

mkdir foo
tar -xzf bar.tar.gz -C foo

linux extract tar.gz

tar –xvzf documents.tar.gz

extract tar.gz

tar -xf archive.tar.gz

extract tar.gz

 tar -zxvf {file.tar.gz}

extract tar gz

tar xvzf file.tar.gz

extracting tar.gz

tar –xvf documents.tar