Convert tar.gz to zip

Conversion of tar.gz file format to zip file format ^beta

Search for tar.gz to zip converter or software able to handle these file types.

Convert Old version Gzip compressed TAR Archive to Compressed ZIP archive.

We have found one software suitable in our database for this conversion.

tar.gz to zip conversion is merely repacking of compressed archives between two different formats, from a variant of GZIP/TAR to just ZIP.

Many tools can be used for this, although they might feature different suffix for .tar.gz files. Nonetheless, file archivers recognize compressed archives regardless of the actual file extension, so it should not be an issue.

Updated: August 29, 2023

Microsoft Windows software - convert tar.gz to zip on Windows

WinRAR

One of the oldest and most popular shareware file archiver and data compression utility

File extension	Convert	Open	Save	Edit	Create	Import	Export	Extract
Convert from tar.gz file	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	Yes
to zip file	No	Yes	Yes	zip editor	Yes	No	No	Yes

The table with program actions contains information about what each program is capable of doing with their files. This may be a good pointer for further searches for certain file conversions and help you find the converter you are looking for if our search result is insufficient for you. However, it is far from perfect and may sometimes show results which are not really usable because of the nature of the software handles the files. So a conversion that appears as possible, just because of matched actions, may in fact not be possible.

Additional links: Open tar.gz file, Open zip file

TAR.GZ

Files with tar.gz extension can be found as Gzip compressed TAR archives. Typical on Unix based operating platforms.

ZIP

Files with zip is associated with the WinZip compression tool. ZIP file is compressed archive container that contains archived files, compressed in ZIP compression format. Common archive format that can be extracted with any archiving tool.

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