I tried to unzip using tar -xvgf filename and it shows error like : tar: Refusing to read archive contents from terminal (missing -f option?)

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Why the g in xvgf?

Based on the documentation:

`-g snapshot-file' During a `--create' operation, specifies that the archive that tar creates is a new GNU-format incremental backup, using snapshot-file to determine which files to backup. With other operations, informs tar that the archive is in incremental format.

It's not needed. Instead, do:

tar -xvf <filename>
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