I need to open a file that sadly is only available in the .tar.gz
file format and I am using Windows 7. I can unzip the file using 7-zip but after that I still have a .tar
file that I can't open in Windows.
Is there a way to open .tar.gz
files on Windows?
.tar.gz
is not supported by the most widely spread client operating system without third party software. And on added to that, when I use it in Linux is has a very bad usability with command flags that is very hard to remeber. See Untar, ungz, gz, tar - how do you remember all the useful options?.tar.gz
is not supported in Windows without third party software. But.zip
is supported and I guess that.zip
is supported by Linux too. If the file had been available in the.zip
format, I hadn't asked this question.man tar
. All you need to remember is that at the end of the flags, you needf
for file. Here's the basics:tar cf arch.tar folder/
is c reating a f ile calledarch.tar
from the folderfolder/
.tar xf arch.tar
will e x tract from the f ilearch.tar
. This also works ontar.gz
files. No need for thez
flag there.