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I am currently running a computer which has access to only Windows.

I have to submit a folder after running tar -czf on it.

How can I do this in Windows, do I have any options?

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    Note that tar is now available in windows by default, so you can use it directly from the Command Prompt or from PowerShell
    – djvg
    Nov 15, 2023 at 13:35

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If all you want is to create a tar.gz (also called tgz) file, then you can use 7Zip from http://www.7-zip.org/

To run like "tar -czf" you need to chain two 7z calls:

7z -ttar a dummy c:\my\path\* -so | 7z -si -tgzip a x.tgz

This creates a file x.tgz containing all data from c:\my\path\.

The -so redirects the output to stdout and the -si option picks that data up.

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    you should have definitely more upvotes
    – Valerio
    Dec 29, 2016 at 9:38
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Take a look at Tar for Windows.

The GNU Tar program provides the ability to create tar archives, as well as various other kinds of manipulation. For example, you can use tar on previously created archives to extract files, to store additional files, or to update or list files which were already stored.

The Win32 port can only create tar archives, but cannot pipe its output to other programs such as gzip or compress, and will not create tar.gz archives; you will have to use or simulate a batch pipe. BsdTar does have the ability to direcly create and manipulate .tar, .tar.gz, tar.bz2, .zip, .gz and .bz2 archives, understands the most-used options of GNU Tar, and is also much faster; for most purposes it is to be preferred to GNU Tar.

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  • Whilst this may theoretically answer the question, it would be preferable to include the essential parts of the answer here, and provide the link for reference.
    – soandos
    Jul 16, 2012 at 2:38
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As of build 17063 (2017), Windows has tar.exe built-in (source). So you can directly use tar commands:

Creating a zip file:

tar -cf [output.zip] [folder/file_name]

Extracting a zip file:

tar -xf [file.zip]
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You want to install Cygwin or MSYS, they usually come with tar utility.

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tar -czf creates a gzipped tar file, usually the extension .tar.gz or .tgz is used.

Windows has no built-in support for creating (or reading) tar files or gzipped files, and Microsoft offers no tools for this either.

This format can be created using, e.g., 7Zip; see for example this blog post: http://www.tmsnetwork.org/blog/creating-targz-archive-easily-windows (archive.org copy: apparently this blog disappeared). Many more tools could be used, see http://www.7zip.com/type/5/TAR (archive.org copy: apparently 7zip.com disappeared, to be replaced by 7-zip.org).

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    I think he is asking for a native way to do it. (instead of 3rd party)
    – Pacerier
    Apr 24, 2014 at 11:56
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You can also download and install 7zip. http://www.7zip.org. With it, you can both unpack and pack many different compression types including gzip.

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I think the most elegant way to do it would be to install Linux subsystem for Windows.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/commandline/wsl/install_guide#enable-the-windows-subsystem-for-linux-feature-gui

Please keep in mind that this is beta.

There are also lots of ways to get Linux functionality:

  • MSYS
  • Cygwin
  • Virtual Machines

There are lots of tools and applications that do this.

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