TAR to ZIP
How to use
Converts TAR, TAR.GZ, TAR.BZ2 and TAR.XZ archives into ZIP. Drop the archive and download the ZIP.
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- Opening a source-code release on Windows
- Sharing Linux server backups with colleagues on Windows or macOS
- Converting data downloads distributed as .tar.gz
- Repacking archives for tools that only accept ZIP
Free and private. Everything runs on your own device, with no account and no uploads.
TAR archives, often compressed as .tar.gz, .tgz, .tar.bz2 or .tar.xz: are the standard on Linux and for source-code releases, but Windows users frequently cannot open them without extra tools, and a .tar.gz needs two steps to extract. This converter unpacks any TAR variant in your browser and repacks the contents as a single ZIP that every operating system opens natively.
No. ZIP files made here store regular files and folders; executable bits and symbolic links from the TAR are not carried over. Keep the TAR for software you will install on Linux.
gzip (.tar.gz, .tgz), bzip2 (.tar.bz2) and xz (.tar.xz), plus uncompressed .tar.
Files named .gz are treated as .tar.gz. A lone gzipped file (such as log.txt.gz) is not a TAR archive and may not convert.
xz and bzip2 compress better than ZIP's Deflate. The files inside are identical.
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Add the TAR archive
Drop a .tar, .tar.gz, .tgz, .tar.bz2 or .tar.xz file.
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Convert
The compression layer and the TAR are both unpacked.
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Review
Paths, including long nested ones, are preserved.
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Download the ZIP
Double-click to open on Windows or macOS.
- ·Keep the original TAR for anything you will deploy or install on Linux, to preserve permissions
- ·Use ZIP to TAR.GZ for the reverse direction
- ·Very large archives are extracted in memory, so close other heavy tabs first