How to extract a tar file (.tgz) in windows? Is this possible, or do I have to get into a linux environment and extract it?
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No, you don't need Linux, you can download a free tool like 7zip which is more than capable of extracting content.
And, on the assumption that you're writing batch files to do this extraction (since this is a programming site rather than a general tools help forum), it has a nice command-line interface so that you don't have to worry about GUI rubbish.
4Cygwin contains the necessary tools, of course. It's overkill just to unpack one tarball, but if you like the Linux command line tools, Cygwin is well worth installing.
Using Cygwin you can unpack a tgz (zipped tar) file like this:
tar -xzf foo.tgz(which means extract zipped file)
You can also drag and drop the tgz file to the cygwin terminal window in order to get the path right. For drive C: it will look like this:
tar -xzf /cygdrive/c/the/path/to/your/file/foo.tgzYou can also use WinRAR to extract .tgz and .tar.gz files however WinRAR is not a free software.
You can use PowerArchiver 6.1 (freeware) or 7-zip (freeware).
I'd go with the previously mentioned 7zip, but you can also use WinZIP.
I always have the UnxUtils GNU utilities in my PATH on a Windows box.
UnxUtils includes tar and gunzip programs, among other things one can't live without after getting used to a Unix shell.
Since Windows 10 version 1803 Windows includes bsdtar (see .
bsdtar is available with tar in CMD and Powershell.
I use Ch Shell from SoftIntegration.
I use Universal Extractor I use that and 7-Zip for a lot of things.
You can check out the gow project. It provides a nice list of Unix utilities on Win32 system. Works quite well.
If you have git bash installed in your machine, then run the tar command to unzip the file
tar -xzf kafka-1.0.2-src.tgz
