Extract

EXTRACT 

Source : https://www.interserver.net/tips/kb/extract-tar-gz-files-using-linux-command-line

.tar.gz files are actually an archive (.tar) and compressed by gzip algorithm (.gz)

1) extract and uncompress
        tar xvzf <file_name.tar.gz>

2) only uncompress
        gunzip file.gz

3) extract and uncompress into different directory
        tar xvzf <file_name.tar.gz> -C <path_to_directory>

4) extract and uncompress a specific file.doc from file_name.tar.gz
        tar xvzf <file_name.tar.gz> file.doc

5) extract and uncompress .tar.bz2 (these are compressed using bZip2 algo instead of gzip)
        tar xvjf <file_name.tar.bz2>

6) Only uncompress .bz2
        bunzip2 -dk <file_name.bz2>

7) Extract and uncompress .tar.xz
        tar -xf <file_name.tar.xz>

8) Extract .7z
        7z x <file_name.7z>

9) Extract from .rar
	unrar e -r <file.rar>

10) .zip
	unzip <file.zip> //uncompresses and extracts into current folder
	unzip -l <file.zip> // lists contents of the .zip file
	unzip <file.zip> -d <path_of_folder_in_which_to_extract>