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How To Uncompress Open Tar.gz Files

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Posted On Fri Jul 21, 2006 By webmaster In Tutorial And Guides Forums And Topics Discussions For Help Forums

tar is a compression technology used to create a Tape ARchive. The resulting file is known as a tarball.

If you have Window, this is the same as a Zip file. You use winzip to compress and uncompress .zip files.So its the same idea. To uncompress the files (or to get the files out of a tarball), you can use the following commands in linux.

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tar xvf filename.tar

If the tarball has also been gzipped (compressed), you can use the following command:

tar xvfz filename.tar.gz

If you only want certain directories from the tarball, do this:

tar xvzf filename.tar.gz */dir.you.want/*

If you have a .tar.bz2 file, then you need bzip2 installed (/usr/ports/archivers/bzip2), and you issue this command:

tar yxf filename.tar.bz2

Killa Sun Apr 08, 2012

so your telling me that i can uncompress them but not run it?

asd Sun Mar 11, 2012

vista?? hahaha, you made me laugh

rrk Fri Feb 25, 2011

download 7zip, it uncompresses tar.gz files too.

kamaljeet Tue Feb 16, 2010

hellow sir i uses windows 7 and xp sp2. i am not able to open this file .tar.gz pls give me full description how to open this file pls thnks

John Wed Jan 21, 2009

you can also download tartool( blog.rajasekharan /2009/01/16/tartool-windows-tar-gzi which is a small utility to extract tar.gz aka tar gzip files.

eugene Sat Dec 27, 2008

if u use windows(any version) download winrar. it unzips .tar or .tar.gz files.

microsoft Thu Oct 23, 2008

i need to know how tgz file uncompress once i have done the umcompresing what happens then, i sent the umcompres command and i saw that the new file was created. anyways, i helped me undersand this tar.gz file system comprssion. but can the compresion be done in windows xp?

Jason Wed Oct 08, 2008

nice job - quick - to the point :)

hostman Wed Sep 24, 2008

sorry, i should have specified that these commands only work on linux computers. if you open windows DOS command, these will not work.

however, if you have windows, there is a program you can download as a shareware, its called wintar which you can use to umcompress .tar files in microsoft windows XP or vista.

Jim Wed Sep 24, 2008

i opend a command line, navigated to the directory the file is in and entered the command you gave. and got the message:
'tar' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

so, i guess this is not a file windows naturally opens.
my question becomes, is there a windows based program that will uncompress these files?

Madhav Sun Jul 27, 2008

i have downloaded adobereader_enu-8.1.2_su1-1.i486.ta and i am unable to install it on my fedora 9. my conf is as follows:
core2 quad 2.4 ghz.
os: win xp and fedora 9 - dual boot
motherboard : intel 975
4 gb ram,
2 hard disks : 250 gb and 500 gb sata

kindly help me to instal adobe reader 8.1 linux x86.

only recently i have loaded fedora 9 alongwith win xp. i have yet to try various applications like b.e.a.m.s., architectural, engineering etc.

regards,

madhav gore

shawn Fri Apr 04, 2008

uh wrong! doesn't work in vista even with the tar.gz in the same dos cmd diretory...

rajiv Sun Jan 20, 2008

how to open a.src.tar.gz file ..?

stu Tue Apr 03, 2007

Just wondering if you knew of a program to uncompress .tar for Macs.cant find one anywhere.thanks mate

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