Gz to Tar Converter
Convert Gz to Tar online, for free.
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How to Convert Gz to Tar?
- Click the “Choose Files” button to select your Gz files.
- Click the “Convert to Tar” button to start the conversion.
- When the status change to “Done” click the “Download Tar” button
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Simply upload your Gz files and click the convert button. You can also batch convert Gz to Tar format.
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We use both open source and custom software to make sure our conversions are of the highest quality. In most cases, you can fine-tune conversion parameters using “Advanced Settings” (optional, look for the icon).
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Our Gz to Tar Converter is free and works on any web browser. We guarantee file security and privacy. Files are protected with 256-bit SSL encryption and automatically deleted after 8 hours.
Gzip (GZ) is a compression format built on the DEFLATE algorithm and created as a free replacement for the patent-encumbered compress utility. A key point often missed is that gzip compresses a single file — it is not an archive format and cannot hold a folder on its own. That is why it is normally combined with TAR to produce .tar.gz. Gzip is also what web servers use to compress pages before sending them to your browser.
How to open a GZ file?
On Linux and macOS, run gunzip file.gz in a terminal, or double-click the file in your desktop environment to decompress it in place.
On Windows, use 7-Zip, WinRAR, or PeaZip — all of them recognise GZ. If the file is really a .tar.gz, you may have to extract it twice: once to unwrap the gzip layer and once more to unpack the TAR inside. You can also convert the file with our GZ to ZIP tool.
Developed by: Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler, GNU Project
Initial Release: 1992
Tape Archive (TAR) is a Unix format that joins many files and folders into one file while preserving their directory structure, permissions, ownership, and timestamps. Importantly, TAR does not compress anything — it only bundles. That is why TAR files are so often paired with a separate compressor, producing the familiar .tar.gz, .tar.bz2, and .tar.xz combinations. TAR remains the standard way to distribute source code and back up Linux systems.
How to open a TAR file?
On Linux and macOS, the built-in tar command does the job: run tar -xf archive.tar in a terminal, or simply double-click the file in the desktop file manager.
Windows 11 can extract TAR from File Explorer and from the command line. For older versions, use 7-Zip, WinRAR, or PeaZip. Since a plain TAR is uncompressed, it is the same size as its contents — compress it to .tar.gz before sending it anywhere. You can also convert the file with our TAR to ZIP tool.
Developed by: Bell Labs (Unix)
Initial Release: 1979
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