linux command to extract .gz, .tar.bz2, .tar.gz files

I always forget how to decompress/extract certain file types in linux. Below I publish list of linux commands to decompress different archives:

Linux extract commands

.gz:

gunzip filename.gz

coommand will delete original file after extraction

.bz2:

bzip2 -d filename.bz2

coommand will delete original file after extraction

bzip2 -dk filename.bz2

this command also extracts but keep original

.tar.gz

tar -xvzf filename.tar.gz

• x: tar can collect files or extract them. x does the latter.
• v: makes tar talk a lot. Verbose output shows you all the files being extracted.
• z: tells tar to decompress the archive using gzip
• f: this must be the last flag of the command, and the tar file must be immediately after. It tells tar the name and path of the compressed file.