Instead of wading through the description of all the options, you can jump to 3.4.3 Short Options Cross Reference under the info tar command.

zxf means: gunzip (the 'z' letter) and extract (the 'x' letter) from file (the 'f' letter, and the file name follows).

May 24, 2016 · Today I tried to unzip one file in Linux, I used 2 kinds of orders 1.tar zxvf zookeeper-3.4.6.tar.gz 2.tar -zxvf zookeeper-3.4.6.tar.gz It seems both of the 2 orders are …

May 26, 2011 · tar zxvf filename.tgz --one-top-level Additionally if you want, you can specify your own and tar will create it automatically. tar zxvf filename.tgz --one-top-level=new_directory

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Feb 18, 2006 · The command "tar -zxvf foo.tar.gz" will extract the tar file foo to the current directory. I am wondering how to extract the tar file to a specific directory. thanks in advance & …

Sep 28, 2014 · tar -zxvf cannot unzip file. Ask Question Asked 10 years, 5 months ago. Modified 10 years, 5 months ago.

Jun 21, 2022 · The instructions you linked to do not match the contents of the file I found from here.The first .tar.gz contains two other .tar.gz files.

Aug 5, 2015 · I am extracting a tar file on linux server using below commands tar xvf httpd-2.2.31.tar tar -xvf httpd-2.2.31.tar both are having same output, what does hyphen(-) mean here?

Dec 28, 2018 · @lurker The command tar tvzf works fine and displays all the files in the tgz file. Actually I created a repertory called src to install Python, so I'm at /home/nak/myname/src and …