Content

• Steps
• Advice
• Warning

Extract TAR files (files) whether compressed with Gzip or not.

Steps

1. 

   Open Terminal (command line interface).

2. 

   
   
   Type tar.

3. 

   Type a space.

4. 

   
   
   Type -x.

5. 

   If the tar file was compressed using gzip (with .tar.gz or .tgz extension), type z.

6. 

   
   
   Type f.

7. 

   Type a space.

8. 

   Type the name of the file you want to extract.

9. 

   Type Enter. advertisement

Advice

• For the verbose output command (lookup required), add v to the option list.

Warning

• Extracting may overwrite the file in some places if it includes a file with the same name.