Extract archive file using Tar command  in CentOS Linux

Tar

• Both compressing and  extracting  of a tar archive use the same command

Synopsis

tar [option] archivefile.tar

Option

x     extract files from archive

v     verbose, detail output of files from archive

f      specify the given archive

-C     specify the target location for extracted file

note

Example

The following command will extract the log.tar archive to current directory

tar xvf log.tar

The following command will extract the log.tar archive to test directory

tar xvf log.tar -C /test

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