tar
Package and extract file archives, supports multiple compression formats.
$ tar -x -f backup.tar.gz
Examples
# Extract to a specific directory tar -xzvf archive.tar.gz -C /output/dir # Extract all to current directory tar -xzvf archive.tar.gz # Remove one folder level tar -xzvf archive.tar.gz --strip-components=1 # Extract specific files only tar -xzvf archive.tar.gz file1.txt dir/