How to Extract Various Types of Compressed Files in Ubuntu

Here are some basic commands to extract various types of compressed files. If you are missing packages for any of these commands, the terminal will let you know when you try to run the command and it will tell you how to install what you need.

Extract .zip Files

unzip filename.zip

Extract .gz Files

gunzip filename.gz

Extract Various Types of .tar Files

tar -xvf filename.tar

tar -xvf filename.tar.gz

tar -xvf filename.tar.xz

tar -xvf filename.tar.bz2

Extract .7z Files

7z e filename.7z

Extract .rar Files

unrar x filename.rar

Or

7z x filename.rar