Very basic request

[Jing Su]

> $ tar -xvzf thunderbird 0.8-j686-linux-gtik2+xft.tar.gz
>
> Be in the directory that you want the files extracted within.
>
> -x = extract, v = verbose, z = un(g)zip, f = file to extract


For future reference, if you ever get a .tar.bz2 file, you can use the -j
flag instead of the -z.

For example, if you get a file like:
thunderbird 0.8-j686-linux-gtik2+xft.tar.bz2

You can do:
tar -xvjf thunderbird 0.8-j686-linux-gtik2+xft.tar.bz2

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