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I have seen on many websites commands like this what does the "-zxvf" or the similar commands stand for?
tar -zxvf <filename> tar xvf <filename> 
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Popular tar programs like the BSD and GNU versions of tar support the command line options Z (compress), z (gzip), and j (bzip2) to compress or decompress the archive file upon creation or unpacking.
z – filter archive through gzip. r – append or update files or directories to the existing archive files. W – Verify an archive file. wildcards – Specify patterns in UNIX tar command.
z means (un)z̲ip.x means ex̲tract files from the archive.v means print the filenames v̲erbosely.f means the following argument is a f̱ilename.For more details, see tar's man page.
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