John Davidson

Message:

I have a file called control.tar.xz. I'm trying to extract the file, but there is no output.

Heres my code:

shell_exec('cd ' . __DIR__ . ' && tar -xf control.tar.xz');

I'm checking for control and it's not showing.

What am I doing wrong?

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My Answer:
't be done with a simple unzip command like you would with a .zip file. You will need to use the tar command along with the xz utility to extract the contents of a tar.xz file.

To extract a tar.xz file, you can use the following command:

bash
tar -xf file.tar.xz


This command will extract the contents of the tar.xz file into the current directory. If you want to extract the contents into a specific directory, you can use the -C flag followed by the directory path:

bash
tar -xf file.tar.xz -C /path/to/directory


Make sure you have the tar and xz utilities installed on your system before attempting to extract a tar.xz file.