Extract TAR & TAR.GZ

Drop a .tar, .tar.gz, .tar.bz2, .tar.xz or .tgz. Common for Linux releases, source-code tarballs, and Docker layers.

Drop your tar archive here

or click to browse — .tar, .tar.gz, .tar.bz2, .tar.xz, .tgz, .tbz, .txz, .gz, .bz2, .xz

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//About TAR

TAR (“Tape Archive”) is the standard Unix bundling format. It just concatenates files; compression is added by piping it through gzip, bzip2, or xz to produce .tar.gz, .tar.bz2, or .tar.xz. This page handles the decompression layer transparently.

Supported variants

.tar — uncompressed
.tar.gz / .tgz — gzip-compressed (the everyday case)
.tar.bz2 / .tbz — bzip2-compressed
.tar.xz / .txz — xz / LZMA2 (best compression)
.gz / .bz2 / .xz on a single file — produces the decompressed file directly

Common use cases

Source releases of open-source projects on GitHub or kernel.org
Docker image layer files
Linux distro packages (.deb, .rpm contain inner tarballs)
Backups produced by tar on Unix

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