Question

I had a look at the options, but nothing seemed obvious as a manner in which to turn off the output when uncompressing a file. The below is the code I am currently using… I just need the option to switch off the output.

tar -zxvf tmp.tar.gz -C ~/tmp1

Answer 1

Just drop the option v.

-v is for verbose. If you don’t use it then it won’t display:

tar -zxf tmp.tar.gz -C ~/tmp1