How to extract tar file in Mac terminal

Question

As titled. I want to use some command, like for .zip files I can say

unzip myfiles.zip -d mydirectory

But is there a thing for .tar file on Mac as well?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51689294/how-to-extract-tar-file-in-mac-terminal

Answer 1

Yes, you can run:

tar -xvf myfile.tar

For .tar.gz, you can run:

tar -xzvf myfile.tar.gz

If you want to extract to any directory other than your cwd, use -C. e.g:

tar -xvf myfile.tar -C somedirectory

I suggest you read the man page for tar if you wish to do anything further:

man tar