.TGZ File Extension

Are you having difficulty opening a file that ends with .TGZ? Such files can be executed only by certain programs. If you cannot open the .TGZ file, it can be due to the following reasons: either you do not have an appropriate program to open it, or your file association is corrupted. For more information about this extension, please read the article below.

What is a .TGZ file?

.TGZ file belongs to the category of Compressed Files used in operating systems such as Windows 11, 10, Windows 7, Windows 8 / 8.1, Windows Vista, Windows XP.

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Developer: N/A

File Type: Gzipped Tar File

Category: Compressed Files

Format: N/A

.TGZ file is associated with Gzipped Tar File developed by N/A, has a N/A Format and belongs to Compressed Files category.

A TGZ file is considered a Unix .TAR archive compressed by Gnu Zip (.GZIP) to reduce file size. This file is widely used in Unix and Linux systems and was initially created as a shortened version of the composite .TAR.GZ extension.

Additional data

To decompress a TGZ file and extract the archived files, the Unix command line can help, where you type the tar -xzvf filename.tgz command to decompress the Gzip file and extract the files from the TAR archive.

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