Linux: untar unzip gunzip unrar etc

here's how to unarchive or decompress files.

Untar (.tar)

Extract .tar

tar xvf filename

Extract .tar.gz, .tgz

tar xvfz filename

Extract .bz2, tar.bz2, .tbz2

tar xvfj filename

Extract .xz, tar.xz

tar xvfJ filename

List content of .tar

tar -tvf filename

unzip (.zip)

unzip filename

Decompress gzip (.gz)

gzip -d filename

gunzip filename

Extract lzip (.lz)

You have to install lzip. At https://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip.html

lzip -d filename

Decompress bzip2 (.bz2)

bzip2 -d filename

Decompress xz (.xz)

xz -d filename

Extract rar file (.rar)

unrar e fileName

or

7z x fileName