explainshell.com - tar xzvf archive.tar.gz

Abstraction: Interactive shell command explainer for tar archive extraction flags

Key points:

• x flag: extract files from an archive
• z flag: filter archive through gzip compression/decompression
• v flag: verbosely list files processed; each additional v increases verbosity (max level 3)
• f flag: specifies the archive file or device; colon in name denotes remote machine (hostname:path)
• Remote access uses rsh by default; optional username can be prefixed to hostname

Connections: Explainshell · Command Line Tools · Shell Scripting

Source: http://explainshell.com/explain?cmd=tar+xzvf+archive.tar.gz