tar

Usage

Since modern versions of tar can auto-detect file format, use:

tar -xf [file]

For verbose output:

tar -xvf [file

Flags

Extraction flags:

• -x: extract
• -f: specify file
• -v: verbose output
• -C: extract to specific directory
• -t: list contents without extracting Archive format flags:
• -z: gzip compression
• -j: bzip2 compression
• -J: xz compression
• --lzip: lzip compression
• --lzma: lzma compression
• --lzop: lzop compression