Opening a .tar.gz file with a single command

Question

When I download a .tar.gz file, I open it with two commands, first gunzip and then tar.

Is it possible to open it with just one command?

Answer 1

Untar Single file from tar File compressed file

To extract a single file called video.mpeg from video.tar use the following command as given below example.

# tar -xvf video.tar video.mpeg

video.mpeg

Extracting Single file from tar.gz File

Use the following command to extract a single file codefile.xml from websitecode.tar.gz archive file

# tar -zxvf websitecode.tar.gz code.xml

code.xml

Extracting Single file from tar.bz2 File

Use the command to extract single file file.html from websitecode.tar.bz2

# tar -jxvfwebsitecode.tar.bz2 home/website/file.html

/home/website/file.html

Also you can read more about all the tar commands at This link explains all the useful tar commands available in linux