Miscellaneous: Tar
(last edit: 2000-11-22)
                   tar [-C DIR] [-xzvf] [tarfile]

-C First go to specified dir before processing
-x Extract
-z If zip file: firt unzip. Zip files are mostley identified by .tgz of .gz
-v Verbose: display wat tar is doing
-f File: specify the file to extract

Example:
user@host:~#tar -C extractdir -xzvf sample.tar.gz