Files with tar extension may be most often found as compressed archives in Unix standard archive format.

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TAR file extension - Unix standard Archive format, Tape Archive

What is tar file? How to open tar files?

File type specification:

Archive and compressed file type icon Archive and compressed file type

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:

TAR icon

TAR  Linux/Unix software

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.

Help how to open:

Standard file format supported by many archive programs.

How to convert:

Repack the files to another compression format.

Find conversions from tar file:

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File identification strings:

HEX code: 75 73 74 61 72
ASCII code: ustar

List of software applications associated to the .tar file extension

Recommended software programs are sorted by OS platform (Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android etc.)
and possible program actions that can be done with the file: like open tar file, edit tar file, convert tar file, view tar file, play tar file etc. (if exist software for corresponding action in File-Extensions.org's database).

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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.

Linux/Unix:

Main software associated with tar file by default:
TAR small icon TAR
Other suggested software:
Xarchiver small icon Xarchiver
GNU cpio

Google Android:

Windows Phone / Windows 10 Mobile:

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