How to open a tar file in Unix

How to open or Untar a "tar.gz" file in Unix:

Assume your file is myfile.tar.gz 

Type below command to first unzip the gz file

 tar -zxvf myfile.tar.gz

It will extract the all files to current directory.  You can also specify a different directory to extract to using -C parameter and a path to the directory as follows:

 tar -C /pathToFolder -zxvf myfile.tar.gz

How to open or Untar a "tar" file in Linux or Unix:

Type  below command to extract file. It will extract file to the current directory

 tar -xvf myfile.tar

Or to extract the file to the another directory

 tar -C /pathToFolder -xvf myfile.tar