Linux under common archive formats are five kinds: zip tar.gz tar.bz2 tar.xz tar.Z
Wherein the tar is a kind of packaging formats, gz and bz2 is a suffix to refer to compression: gzip and bzip2
filename .zip decompression:
unzip filename.zip
filename .tar.gz decompression:
tar -zxvf filename.tar.gz
Wherein the meanings are as follows zxvf
Z: G Z IP compression format
X: E X tract decompression
v: v erbose Details
f: f Ile (File = archieve) file
filename .tar.bz2 decompression:
tar -jxvf filename.tar.bz2
j: bzip2 compression format
Other options tar.gz and extract the same meaning
filename .tar.xz decompression:
tar -Jxvf filename.tar.xz
Note J capital
filename .tar.Z decompression:
tar -Zxvf filename.tar.Z
Note Z capital
Details about the tar command can
tar --help
In fact, since version 1.15 from tar can automatically identify a compressed format, so no need to distinguish between people can correctly decompress compressed format
tar -xvf filename.tar.gz tar -xvf filename.tar.bz2 tar -xvf filename.tar.xz tar -xvf filename.tar.Z