Contents. 1 Introduction Source code is often packed for download as a TAR (Tape ARchive) file, that is a standard format in the Unix/Linux world. These files have a.tar extension; they can also be compressed, the extension is.tar.gz or.tar.bz2 in these cases. There are several ways to unpack these files. 2 tar If you have MinGW/MSYS or Cygwin installed, you can use the tar command to unpack such files: tar xvf tar xzvf tar xjvf See the for more information.

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3 7-Zip Another option is to install 7-Zip, which has a nice graphical user interface. 7-Zip can also be used to unpack many other formats and to create tar files (amongst others). Download and install 7-Zip from. If you do not want to use 7-Zip as a command line tool, skip the next steps. Add the directory you installed 7-Zip into to your path (Start - Control Panel - System - Advanced - Environment Variables).

Move the tar file to the directory you wish to unpack into (usually the tar file will put everything into a directory inside this directory). Open a command prompt, and cd to the directory.

How can I uncompress and unarchive a.tar.gz file using cat, tar and gzip on one command line? Is this even possible?

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If the tar file is compressed, type 7z x filename.tar.gz at the command prompt (where filename.tar.gz is the name of the compressed tar file). This results in a tar file called filename.tar. Type 7z x filename.tar at the command prompt (where filename.tar is the name of the tar file). Instead of using 7-Zip on the command line, you can use the file manager and click on a.tar,.tar.gz, or.tar.bz2 file; 7-Zip will automatically start. 4 TarTool A simple windows command line tool (no install, just unzip) Its hosted on codeplex, complete with the source code. to decompress and untar.tar.gz (.tgz) files or. just untar.tar files TarTool.exe Usage: TarTool sourceFile destinationDirectory TarTool D: sample.tar.gz./ TarTool sample.tgz temp TarTool -x sample.tar temp TarTool 2.0 Beta supports bzip2 files such as tar.bz2 and.bz2 extraction.

TarTool -xj sample.tar.bz2 temp or TarTool -j sample.bz2 More details are on this post.