http://askubuntu.com/questions/25347/what-command-do-i-need-to-unzip-extract-a-tar-gz-file
tar -xvzf community_images.tar.gz
To explain a little further, tar collected all the files into one package, community_images.tar
. The gzip program applied compression, hence the gz extension. So the command does a couple things.
-
f
: this must be the last flag of the command, and the tar file must be immediately after. It tells tar the name and path of the compressed file. -
z
: tells tar to decompress the archive using gzip -
x
: tar can collect files or extract them.x
does the latter. -
v
: makes tar talk a lot. Verbose output shows you all the files being extracted.
http://askubuntu.com/questions/86849/how-to-unzip-a-zip-file-from-the-terminal
unzip file.zip -d destination_folder