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.tar.gz is a pretty common archive format. How to extract its contents, "unzipping" it in the command line?

cli tar gzip

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tar can do it all:

$ tar --extract --ungzip --one-top-level --file archive.tar.gz

That will result in a directory named according to the archive (so just archive in this case) containing the extracted files. The original archive.tar.gz is not consumed.

For more info, checkout the (extensive) official documentation.

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The short form for the given command would be tar xzf archive.tar.gz.

It's a good habit to have the f argument at the end, because older versions of tar expect the archive name immediately after it, so tar xfz archive.tar.gz would fail.

For modern versions of tar the order of the argument switches does not matter, they are intelligent enough to find the given archive name nevertheless.