Which of the following commands extracts the contents of the compressed archive file1.tar.gz?

The command to extract the contents of the compressed archive file1.tar.gz is:

tar -xzvf file1.tar.gz

Here's what each part of the command means:

• tar: This is the command that handles archive files.
• -x: This option tells tar to extract the files.
• z: This option tells tar to decompress the archive using gzip.
• v: This option tells tar to list the files being processed. This is optional and can be omitted if you don't want to see this output.
• f: This option tells tar that the next argument is the name of the archive file.
• file1.tar.gz: This is the name of the archive file to extract.