Unpacking a tar archive

Notice that the example tar file was packaged with all files within the directory: ddd-3.1.6 This is a good thing!
To unpack the tar archive, use tar -x
New switch: -x extracts files from the archive
cd /usr/local/src tar -xvzf ddd-3.1.6.tar.gz /usr/local/src/ddd-3.1.6 will be created
Demonstration

Notice that the example tar file was packaged with all files within the directory: ddd-3.1.6 This is a good thing!