Changes: How to untar a tar file or gzip-bz2 tar file

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Tar file can come compressed or uncompressed. Generally that are compressed using gzip or bzip2. The program, tar, will uncompress both types and extract the files from archive.

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Type at the command prompt
tar cvzf file-1.0.tar.gz - for a gzip compress tar file (.tgz or .tar.gz)

tar cvjf file-1.0.tar.bz2 - for a bzip2 compressed tar file (.tbz or .tar.bz2)

tar xvf file-1.0.tar - for uncompressed tar file (.tar)
- x = eXtract, this indicated an extraction ( c = create to create )
- v = verbose (optional) the files with relative locations will be displayed.
- z = gzip-ped; j = bzip2-zipped
- f = from/to file ... (what is next after the f is the archive file)
The files will be extracted in the current folder (most of the times in a folder with the name 'file-1.0').

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 [[Tar]] file can come compressed or uncompressed. Generally that are compressed using [[gzip]] or [[bzip2]]. The program, tar, will uncompress both types and extract the files from archive.
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 ==Steps==
 # Type at the command prompt
-#:'''tar xvzf file-1.0.tar.gz''' - for a gzip compress tar file (.tgz or .tar.gz)
+#:'''tar cvzf file-1.0.tar.gz''' - for a gzip compress tar file (.tgz or .tar.gz)
-#:'''tar xvjf file-1.0.tar.bz2''' - for a bzip2 compressed tar file (.tbz or .tar.bz2)
+#:'''tar cvjf file-1.0.tar.bz2''' - for a bzip2 compressed tar file (.tbz or .tar.bz2)
 #:'''tar xvf file-1.0.tar''' - for uncompressed tar file (.tar)
 #* x = eXtract, this indicated an extraction ( c = create to create )

Changes: How to untar a tar file or gzip-bz2 tar file

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