How to unzip .tgz file using the terminal?
To extract a .tgz
file with tar you need to use,
tar -xvzf /path/to/yourfile.tgz
where,
-
x
for extract -
v
for verbose -
z
for gnuzip -
f
for file, should come at last just before file name.
You can use the following command in a terminal to unzip the file in your case,
tar -xvzf /media/towhid/Amra/Software/Developing\ Soft/mongodb-linux-x86_64-2.6.3.tgz
Extract a .tgz
file in different directory:
One can use -C
option to extract archive contents to a different directory as following,
tar -xvzf /path/to/yourfile.tgz -C /path/where/to/extract/
Let's end the decades of hardly-memorable one-letter tar options. Use this to extract your .tgz
file:
tar --extract --file /path/to/file.tgz
The explanation of used options was purposedly left out.