Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index A tgz file is a compressed archive of directories and/or files that is prepared by tarring a directory, and then gzipping the resulting .tar file. In Linux itīs used: To pack the command Simple tar file: tar-cf tarredfilename filetopack1 filetopack2 and so on... to pack and compress: tar-czf tarredfilename filetopack1 filetopack2 and so on...to compress in gzip and tar-cjf tarredfilename filetopack1 filetopack2 and so on...to compress in bzip2 file format. To unpack tar files and uncompress gziped files, the command tar -xzf filetounpack.tar.gz and uncompress bzip2ed files, tar -xjf filetounpack.tar.gz.bz2 This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.