Type man tar for more information, but this command should do the trick: tar -xvzf community_images.tar.gz To explain a little further, tar collected all the files into one package, …

Dec 19, 2013 · I want to see the contents (list of files and folders) of an archive, for example a tar.gz file without extracting it. Are there any methods for doing that?

May 26, 2011 · 1390 To extract an archive to a directory different from the current, use the -C, or --directory, tar option, as in tar -xf archive.tar -C /target/directory Note that the target directory …

Jan 3, 2012 · I'm used to extracting tarballs with a -xfz flag, which handles gzip and bzip2 archives. Recently I've run into a .tar.xz file and I would like to uncompress it in one step using …

Apr 15, 2012 · In Unix and Unix-like systems (like Ubuntu), archiving and compression are separate. tar puts multiple files into a single (tar) file. gzip compresses one file (only). So, to …

Nov 10, 2014 · I have downloaded tar.gz files. But I don't know how to install it. How do I install this kind of file?

Jul 27, 2012 · Open the tar in Archive Manager from Nautilus, go down into the folder hierarchy to find the file you need, and extract it. On a server or command-line system, use a text-based …

Mar 24, 2016 · GNU tar by default stores relative paths. Whether an archive uses relative paths can be checked by running tar -tf archive | head -n 1, which will print the path of the first file in …

No need to use sudo to unpack the archive. Type this in a terminal: tar -xzf archive.tar.gz Or you can just double-click on the archive from Nautilus (the file manager) to see what's inside. No …

Jul 19, 2014 · Great add also the option to extract files contained in archive.tar.gz to a new directory named archive tar --extract --file /path/to/file.tgz --one-top-level. That's often the …