What compression utility do you use to unzip a tar file?

[Jean]

Hi everyone,

What compression utility do you use to uncompress a tar file? Thanks in advance for any help.

 

[JayPatel]

tar? do u mean rar? you use WinRar if it is a rar file.

 

[Crab cake]

No, he means tar as in Unix/Linux tar. No utility required. Do it from CLI.

 

[PliotronX]

For future information, TAR files don't compress, they're simply archives to combine multiple files into one (TAR) file. This is where GZip comes in, GZip supports compression of only a single file, so a popular way of compressing and archiving files was by first combining a bunch of files into a TAR archive, then compressing the TAR archive with GZip. This stuff is kinda trivial, so it's not imperative to remember, I just thought it would be interesting to know

And archiving programs for Windows such as WinZip and WinRAR support both TAR archives and GZip compressed files, so you can use those under Windows, or one of the various freeware utilities for Linux available at Linux.org.

 

[Jean]

Thanks everyone for your help and explanation.

What is CLI? If it is an application, where can I find it?

I have a file with the following format jbdocpdf.tar.gz. After running Winace it creates a file jbdocpdf.tar; continue doing so, it creates many other small *.pdf files. Unfortunately, all the files has 0 bytes even though the original files is 25MB. I also try Winrar in vain, it displays "no archive founnd in selected files". What I am missing here? Any kind of help is greatly appreciated.

 

[DeeK]

I use Powerarchiver. CLI refers to the command line, which is the preferred method in Unix, where .tar.gz is the standard compression format.

 

[Hawkeye_(BEL)]

tar -xzvf <tarballname>.tar.gz