Open TAR.GZ file

Old version Gzip compressed TAR Archive

What is tar.gz file? Understanding and opening tar.gz files

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Old version Gzip compressed TAR Archive

Files with tar.gz extension can be found as Gzip compressed TAR archives. Typical on Unix based operating platforms.

Further details

The tar.gz was popular compression file format used on Unix and Unix based operating systems.

The TAR part of file extension identifies TAR (Tape Archive) archiving utility and .GZ identifies GZip compression file format.  It is old version of Gzip compressed TAR Archive - see TGZ, TAR, TAZ, GZ file extensions. However tar.gz archives are still supported by Unix, Linux, BSD based operating systems.

MIME types:
application/gnutar
application/x-tar
application/x-compressed

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Gzip

A file compression utility for Unix

What file extension actually is?

Simply put, file extensions are the characters after the dot in the computer file name, so for example document-name.pdf has file extension „pdf“. This helps Windows to identify which program should be used to open the file.

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