Comments on: Extract a gzip compressed tar archive in Linux

By: Pete

Pete — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 19:19:14 +0000

one liner
tar -zxvf file.tar.gz

extracts all to current dir

By: S_raparty

S_raparty — Mon, 16 May 2011 12:54:00 +0000

Good thanx Rahul

By: Thiyagarajan Veluchamy

Thiyagarajan Veluchamy — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 13:19:00 +0000

Thanks

By: Rahulbiliye

Rahulbiliye — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 05:50:00 +0000

gunzip file.tar.gz
u get file.tar
tar -xvf file.tar

By: Rahul B

Rahul B — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 05:49:00 +0000

gunzip file.tar.gz

it will give file.tar

then type command tar -xvf

By: Bubu

Bubu — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:19:00 +0000

good stuff

By: sikat ang pinoy

sikat ang pinoy — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 11:11:00 +0000

It won’t work for me I think gunzip is another option to unzip gzip file.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 11:01:00 +0000

Sorry Bozzzzzzzz! it won’t worked for me

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 06:26:00 +0000

santhosh are you sure its not a bzip not gzip

By: santhosh

santhosh — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 09:22:00 +0000

i got the following error when i extracted.
gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors.
Plz suggest any way to extract in linux?