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.tar

File Type Tape Archive IconTape Archive
File Format Standard (developed by AT&T Labs)
Usage Open manually
Popularity ★ ★ ★ ★ ★  Popular
Description

Contains multiple files stored as one archive; created with the Unix tar program; TAR files are not automatically compressed, so they are often compressed with Gnu Zip (which creates a .GZ file).

A filename that ends in ".tar.gz" is a TAR archive that has been compressed with Gnu Zip compression; sometimes the shortened .TGZ extension is used as well.

Open With
Windows

Icon7-Zip

IconCorel WinZip

IconRARLAB WinRAR

macOS

IconApple Archive Utility

IconThe Unarchiver

IconCorel WinZip Mac

Unix

IconGNU Tar

IconPeaZip

IconB1 Free Archiver

Published August 20, 2008
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