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How to Unzip a File on Ubuntu

On Ubuntu if you have a file compressed as latest.tar.gz you can untar or unzip it with this command

tar -xzvf latest.tar.gz

If you have a zip file, you can unzip it with this other command

unzip latest.zip

On Ubuntu if you have a file compressed as .tgz you can check its contents with this command

tar -tf filename.tgz

Or if you have a .gz file and you want to check its contents, you can do so with this command

gzip -cd &amp;lt;filename&amp;gt; | more

I have not tested these commands on other Linux distributions but I guess they would also work.