Working with Tar & Gzip Files
Untar and unzip a gzip file
tar -xzf filename.tar.gz
View contents of a tar.gz file
tar -ztvf filename.tar.gz
Extract specific files from tar.gz files
tar -xzf file.tar.gz "file_to_extract"
# this extracts a set of files with the given prefix tar -xzf file.tar.gz "*file_prefix*"
Create a tar.gz file
tar -czvf file.tar.gz directory