tar xvf example.tar

If you are working with gzipped(example.tar.gz), you can extract the files from it using:

tar xvfz example.tar.gz

If you have example.tgz, you can extract the files from it using:

tar xzvf example.tgz

If the tarball has been compressed with bzip2(example.tar.bz2), then you will need to

have bzip2 installed. (If all is well and bzip2 is installed, you can extract the files from it

using:
tar yxf example.tar.bz2

Sometimes you only want to extract certain directories from the tarball.

An example of doing so would be:

tar xvzf example.tar.gz */DIRECTORY_YOU_WANT_REPLACES_THIS_TEXT/*

If you would like to see what is inside a tarball, you can use the command:

tar tvf example.tar

If you would like to see what is inside a gzip’d tarball, you can use the command:

tar tzf example.tar.gz

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