Extracting a .tar.gz File With a Single Command

Linux

19 June 2011 0 Comments

This will extract the contents of files.tar.gz to the current directory:

tar -xzf files.tar.gz

I find that a good mnemonic for this is the “angry German ordering you to extract an archive” mnemonic:
Xtract Ze Files!!

Tags: extract, gz, tar, xvzf

Garrett.S
Just responding to say I got it working Thanks for the help, script works a treat. – Jun 07, 8:41 PM
tboerman
The first command will work if you put the script in C:Python27ustreamRTMPDump.py. You may want to check out a Python tutorial first if you run... – Jun 07, 5:39 PM
Garrett.S
Basically this. – Jun 07, 5:17 PM
tboerman
You can put the script anywhere. Just put it in a directory, navigate to that directory, and enter the command. If you can't figure it... – Jun 07, 5:02 PM
Garrett.S
Sorry about this, I think I got slightly ahead of myself. I have the means to run the script I just don't know how. Where... – Jun 07, 4:24 PM
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