# Basic syntax:
tar -zxvf file.tar.gz
# Where, x tells tar to extract the files
# v tells the command to list all of the files in the archive
# z tells the tar command to uncompress the file (gzip)
# f tells tar that you are going to give it a file name to work with
tar -xvzf community_images.tar.gz
Also, to extract in a specific directory
for eg. to extract the archive into a custom my_images directory .
tar -xvzf community_images.tar.gz -C my_images
