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TAR.GZ - Compressed Tarball File

What is a TAR.GZ file

TAR.GZ files are archive files created using the GNU zip compression algorithm. These archives are commonly used on computers running the Unix operating system. TAR.GZ is used for various file compression, however it is frequently used to compress programs and installers.

Archives with the TAR.GZ extension can contain single or multiple compressed files aka a bundle of files. The files contained in the compressed archive are first packaged into a TAR archive and, afterwards, compressed using gzip. Next to the TAR.GZ extension, TGZ is commonly used as an extension for these tar and gzipped archives.

Here's a small, but not exhaustive list of programs that can open TAR.GZ documents:

  • 7-Zip (Windows)
  • Acubix PicoZip (Windows)
  • Apple Archive Utility (Mac)
  • Ark (Linux)
  • Corel WinZip (Windows)
  • gzip (Linux)
  • PeaZip (Windows)
  • Smith Micro StuffIt Deluxe (Windows & Mac)
  • The Unarchiver (Mac)
  • WinInizio ZipGenius (Windows)
  • WinRAR 5 (Windows)
  • Xarchive (Linux)
  • ZDevs ZArchiver (Android)