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How To Uncompress Open tar.gz files

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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

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:: 1 :: Reply #1217 Reply By stu On Tue Apr 03, 2007 12:36 am

stu:

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

:: 2 :: Reply #37371 Reply By rajiv On Sun Jan 20, 2008 12:53 pm

rajiv:

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

:: 3 :: Reply #48587 Reply By shawn On Fri Apr 04, 2008 11:32 am

shawn:

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

:: 4 :: Reply #63512 Reply By Madhav On Sun Jul 27, 2008 12:08 am

Madhav:

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

:: 5 :: Reply #71974 Reply By Jim On Wed Sep 24, 2008 10:06 am

Jim:

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?

:: 6 :: Reply #71993 Reply By hostman On Wed Sep 24, 2008 11:55 am

hostman:

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.

:: 7 :: Reply #74554 Reply By Jason On Wed Oct 08, 2008 6:49 pm

Jason:

nice job - quick - to the point :)

:: 8 :: Reply #77017 Reply By microsoft On Thu Oct 23, 2008 7:37 pm

microsoft:

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?

:: 9 :: Reply #87712 Reply By eugene On Sat Dec 27, 2008 2:14 am

eugene:

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

:: 10 :: Reply #90856 Reply By John On Wed Jan 21, 2009 8:32 am

John:

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.

:: 11 :: Reply #128336 Reply By kamaljeet On Tue Feb 16, 2010 9:31 pm

kamaljeet:

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