Comments on snippet: 'tar command' Snipplr comments feed https://snipplr.com/ Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:42:47 +0000 jmiller said on 08/Jul/2010 https://snipplr.com/view/207/tar-command <p>Type tar -zxvf yourfile.tar to extract the file to the current directory. Or tar -C /myfolder -zxvf yourfile.tar to extract to another directory.</p> Thu, 08 Jul 2010 04:40:41 UTC https://snipplr.com/view/207/tar-command