tar xvzf file.tar.gz
tar -xvf file.tar.gz
tar -zxvf file_name.tar.gz
tar -xzf file.tar.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
tar -xvzf community_images.tar.gz
tar -xf archive.tar.gz
tar -xvzf community_images.tar.gz
Also, to extract in a specific directory
for eg. to extract the archive into a custom my_images directory .
tar -xvzf community_images.tar.gz -C my_images
tar –xvzf documents.tar.gz
tar -xvf archive.tar.gz
or
tar -xf archive.tar.gz -C /home/linuxize/files
tar -xf archive.tar.gz
tar -zxvf {file.tar.gz}
tar -xf archive.tar.gz -C /home/linuxize/files
tar -xvzf community_images.tar.gz
tar –xvf documents.tar
tar -xzf archive-name.tar.gz
cd archive-name
./configure
make
sudo make install