what does -zxvf mean in tar -zxvf filename

Question

I have seen on many websites commands like this what does the  -zxvf  or the similar commands stand for   tar -zxvf  lt filename gt   tar xvf  lt filename gt

User · Accepted Answer

z means  un z ip  x means ex tract files from the archive  v means print the filenames v erbosely  f means the following argument is a f ilename    For more details  see tar s man page

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Instead of wading through the description of all the options  you can jump to 3 4 3 Short Options Cross Reference under the info tar command    x means --extract  v means --verbose  f means --file  z means --gzip  You can combine one-letter arguments together  and f takes an argument  the filename  There is something you have to watch out for      Short options  letters may be clumped together  but you are not   required to do this  as compared to old options  see below    When   short options are clumped as a set  use one  single  dash for them   all  e g     tar  -cvf    Only the last option in such a set is   allowed to have an argument 1        This old way of writing  tar  options can surprise even experienced   users   For example  the two commands    tar cfz archive tar gz file  tar -cfz archive tar gz file       are quite different   The first example uses  archive tar gz  as the   value for option  f  and recognizes the option  z    The second   example  however  uses  z  as the value for option  f  -- probably not   what was intended

[linux] what does -zxvf mean in tar -zxvf <filename>?

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