00archive

TAR

Tape Archive

TAR bundles files without compressing them, preserving Unix permissions and symlinks. It is almost always paired with a compressor, producing .tar.gz or .tar.bz2.

Extension: .tar
MIME type: application/x-tar

01 Convert TAR to something else

TAR to ZIP Unix archives, on a machine that is not Unix.

03 Related formats

Opening a .tar file

If you landed here because something handed you a .tar file and nothing on your machine will open it, converting it to a format you already have a reader for is usually faster than installing new software. Every conversion above runs in this browser — the file is not uploaded, so it works on a locked-down work machine and on a file you are not allowed to send anywhere.