A good tar utility for Windows is tar. No need to involve Cygwin, either; it can run as a native program. The UnxUtils project on Sourceforge has lots of Windows versions of common Unix utilities without the need for Cygwin. If you need a GUI, WinZip can read tarballs, and so can WinRar. They behave the same as you describe 7-Zip, though. The UnxUtils project on Sourceforge has lots of Windows versions of common Unix utilities without the need for Cygwin. If you need a GUI, WinZip can read tarballs, and so can WinRar. They behave the same as you describe 7-Zip, though. If you open a.tar.gz file, they first unzip the file and then open the inner tar file. There's not much you.
- 7-Zip works in Windows 10 / 8 / 7 / Vista / XP / 2016 / 2012 / 2008 / 2003 / 2000 / NT. P7zip - the port of the command line version of 7-Zip to Linux/Posix. On 7-Zip's SourceForge Page you can find a forum, bug reports, and feature request systems.
- Open Zip & RAR Files With 7-Zip Tutorial - Duration: 13:33. JAGTutorials 283,911 views.
This easy to follow guide will explain how to open and access the contents of a .tar.gz file in Windows 10.
Note: If you’re using Linux, the tutorial you’re looking for is How to Create and Extract tar.gz Files in Linux.
While the screenshots and steps are specific to Windows 10, if you’re using an earlier version of Windows you should have no trouble following along. It’s also worth noting that the (free) App used in this tutorial will also allow you to open many other file times, such as .RAR and .ARG files. You can even use this program to create tar and tar.gz files in Windows!
With that said, let’s go!
- Head over to the 7-Zip download page. This program is Open Source and completely free to use. Download version 15.06 beta (2015-08-09) for Windows – unless there’s been a more recent version created since the time this tutorial was published (ie. a version with a date after 8/9/15). You’re probably going to want to download the 64-bit x64 version based on the architecture of your PC (if it’s even 3 years old, 64bit is probably the one you want). Install the App by double-clicking the downloaded file and follow the typical steps.
- Now locate the .tar.gz file that you want to open and extract/copy the contents from. Double-click it.
- When you’re asked How do you want to open this file? – first place a check in the box labelled Always use this app to open .gz files, and then click More apps ↓
- Now click Look for another app on this PC
- At this point you’re going to have to navigate to a specific file. From the top menu, go to your Program Files (x86) folder and then look for (and select) the 7-Zip folder. If you don’t see either the Program Files (x86)or the 7-Zip folders, look inside of your Program Files folder – the one that doesn’t have (x86) in the name.Once you’re inside of the 7-Zip folder, select the 7zFM file (which might be listed as 7zFM.exe) and then click the Open button.
- Ta-da! You’re now looking at the contents of the .gz part of the file, and it’s the .tar part. Double-click the .tar file (as seen in the screenshot below).
- There’s what you’re after! Select everything from inside of the .tar file that you want to extract to your computer (in order to edit them etc), and then click the Extract button.
- Right away you’ll be prompted where you’d like to extract these files/folders to. Click the … button (see screenshot below) and select the folder you want to extract the files to. In the example below, I opted for my Desktop. Then click OK
- You. Are. Done! All of the files that were inside of your original tar.gz file have been copied to your hard drive, ready for you to read, work on etc.
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I use Cygwin regularly, but I have a need these days to extract tar.gz and tar.bz2 files on other people's Windows machines. They don't want Cygwin; they need a GUI. I've tried 7-zip, which some other people in our company were using, but 7-zip makes the braindead decision to require you to first uncompress a file to a new destination file, then untar the file, thus wasting time and disk space, and requiring extra actions on my part. And there's other things I don't like about its interface.
I just received a new Windows workstation and decided to try out the ZipGenius software the powers that be decided to provide with it, but it doesn't even handle tar.gz files.
Any suggestions on a better tool?
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7-Zip allows you to double click the file inside its file manager and explore it, so you can double click the tar.bz and get the tar, and double click again to get the files inside.
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A good tar utility for Windows is
tar
. No need to involve Cygwin, either; it can run as a native program. The UnxUtils project on Sourceforge has lots of Windows versions of common Unix utilities without the need for Cygwin.If you need a GUI, WinZip can read tarballs, and so can WinRar. They behave the same as you describe 7-Zip, though. If you open a .tar.gz file, they first unzip the file and then open the inner tar file. There's not much you can do to avoid that in a GUI. Both the tar and gz formats are streamable, which makes them perfect for, say, piping the output from
gunzip
into tar
in order to unpack a tarball without using lots of extra disk space. But a GUI is going to offer a list of all the files in the archive, which you can't do without reading the entire tar file. A GUI will also allow you to point and click to select which single files to extract, and you can't do that without reading the entire file, either.What a GUI could do is unzip the file in memory to create an index and then discard the data, retaining only enough to display the index. Once you select the files to extract, it would unzip the tarball a second time and write the selected data to disk. But I'm not aware of any programs that do it that way. If you're that low on disk space, use the command-line method instead.
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Total Commander handles .tar.gz out of the box and is just the best FileSystem manager around in my book :)
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Try tartool, its a simple command line utility.
Its free and the code is open source.
Disclosure: I wrote this tool.
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You can use 7-Zip, or PeaZip if you dislike 7-Zip's UI, both are free and open source.Another good choice may be WinRAR, it is non-free but just shows a nag screen at program's startup when the trial expires, not a big nag at all.
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Archive eXchange from www.objectfusion.com has the best TAR support of any of the Windows software currently on the market.
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Brian lara cricket game download. I've always been a big fan of ZipGenius. They support TAR formats (7zip too) and it has a lot of great features. Plus it is free.
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