In this tutorial, we will introduce how to unzip .tgz file in linux system. Command tar will be used in terminal.
Unzip .tgz file to current directory
For example, there is a .tgz file (filename.tgz) in the current directory.
tar -zxvf filename.tgz
Run this command, you will see filename.tgz is unpacked to current directory.
Unzip .tgz file to a specific directory
Here is an example:
tar -zxvf filename.tgz -C /tmp/data
We can use -C target directory to unpack a .tgz file to it. In this example, filename.tgz will be unzipped into /temp/data.