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Applying a compression utility such as gzip, bzip2, xz, lzip, lzma, or compress to a tar file produces a compressed tar file, typically named with an extension indicating the type of compression e. MS-DOS's 8. A tar file is the concatenation of one or more files. Each file is preceded by a byte header record. The file data is written unaltered except that its length is rounded up to a multiple of bytes and the extra space is zero filled.

Here, tar will use various compression algorithms to do the job. While you needed to use different commands to create different types of tar archives, we can use only a single tar command to extract all of them. The following tar command will extract any valid tar archive. If files with similar filenames exist, upon extraction, tar will overwrite the files outside the archive. The tar tool offers such flexibility that you can extract only the select few files you need.

For this task, the tar command structure would look like this. Here, the file name would be the file name of your desired file. Compress, decompress Bzip2 files. Compress, decompress GZip files. Open and extract RAR files. Create, open, extract WIM disk images. Create, open, extract ZIP files. Create, open, extract ZIPX files. Create, open, extract Zstandard files. Alternatively, compression can be achieved creating tar file first, then compressing it in a second separate step, selecting any of the write-supported formats - 7z, arc, pea, zip Read more about how to compress files with Brotli , compress files with BZip2 , compress files with GZip , compress files to 7-Zip's XZ format, and how to compress files with Zstandard.

To remove delete data from the archive, select items and press cancel or "Delete from archive" button. Deleted items will not be recoverable from recycle bin. How to convert TAR files Convert button extracts and re-pack input TAR archive files into any write-supported format 7z, arc, pea, zip