Files with tar extension may be most often found as compressed archives in Unix standard archive format.
Software that open tar file
TAR file extension - Unix standard Archive format, Tape Archive
What is tar file? How to open tar files?
File type specification:
File extension tar is commonly used for Unix standard archive file format.
A tar file contains multiple files stored as one archive created with the Unix tar program. These files are not automatically compressed, so they are often compressed with Gnu Zip (which creates a gz file).
A filename that ends in "tar.gz" is a TAR archive that has been compressed with Gnu Zip compression; sometimes the shortened tgz extension is used as well.
MIME types:
appliation/x-tar
application/x-tar
application/tar
applicaton/x-gtar
multipart/x-tar
application/x-compress
application/x-compressed
Updated: November 29, 2023
The default software associated to open tar file:
A popular archiving utility on Unix and Unix based operating systems, TAR (Tape Archiver) is used only to archive more files in to one, but it is not able to compress them. For compression of TAR archives, external compression utilities need to be used, such as gzip, bzip2, xz, lzip, lzma.
List of software applications associated to the .tar file extension
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Software that open tar file - Unix standard Archive format, Tape Archive
Programs supporting the exension tar on the main platforms Windows, Mac, Linux or mobile. Click on the link to get more information about listed programs for open tar file action.