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untar-tar-xz

Kiril Panayotov Blagoev

Date created: 2024-09-23

Resources and links

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/57335266/how-to-untar-a-file

If a file ends on .tar.xz

tar -xjvf <filename.tar.xz>

If you want to specify a directory to extract to:

tar  -xjvf  <filename.tar.xz>   -C  <output/dir>

Where,

  • -z : Work on bzip2 compression automatically when reading archives.
  • -x : Extract tar.xz archive.
  • -v : Produce verbose output (Display progress and extracted file list on screen).
  • -f : Read the archive from the archive to the specified file. (In this case, read example.tar.xz.)
  • -t : List the files in the archive.
  • -r : Append files to the end of the tarball.
  • –delete (GNU/Linux tar only) : Delete files from the tarball.