{"id":140637,"date":"2026-03-12T04:50:04","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T08:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pureinfotech.com\/?p=140637"},"modified":"2026-03-12T08:31:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T12:31:00","slug":"extract-tar-gz-files-windows-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pureinfotech.com\/extract-tar-gz-files-windows-11\/","title":{"rendered":"How to extract .tar.gz files on Windows 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"sum\">\n<li>Windows 11 includes native tar support, allowing you to extract .tar.gz, .tgz, .gz, and .zip files using Command Prompt.<\/li>\n<li>The main command is <code>tar -xvzf file.tar.gz -C destination-folder<\/code><\/li>\n<li>.tar.gz files are tar archives compressed with gzip, commonly used on Linux and macOS systems.<\/li>\n<li>You can also extract tarballs using Linux tools through the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) with a distro like Ubuntu.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pureinfotech.com\/tag\/windows-11\">Windows 11<\/a> includes native support\u00a0<span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">for extracting\u00a0<strong>&#8220;.tar.gz&#8221;<\/strong> files using Command Prompt without\u00a0<\/span>third-party tools. You can even use a Linux distro through the <a href=\"https:\/\/pureinfotech.com\/install-windows-subsystem-linux-2-windows-10\/\">Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)<\/a> to quickly extract tarballs created on another platform.<\/p>\n<p>When you see a <strong>.tar.gz<\/strong> file, it means\u00a0<span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">it was created using the Unix-based archiving utility\u00a0<strong>tar<\/strong>\u00a0and then compressed with\u00a0<strong>gzip<\/strong><\/span>. These files are often referred to as &#8220;tarballs.&#8221; While you can find them written like a double extension (.tar.gz), the format can also be written as <strong>.tgz<\/strong> or <strong>.gz<\/strong>. (It is worth noting that Linux doesn&#8217;t use file extensions. Instead, the file type is part of the file name.)<\/p>\n<p>Although tar files are usually more common on Linux distros (for example, Ubuntu) and macOS for backups and archival, you may also come across these files on Windows 11. You could use third-party tools like <strong>7-Zip<\/strong> and <strong>PeaZip<\/strong>, but these are not recommended as they don&#8217;t always work with <strong>.tar.gz<\/strong> files. Instead, you should use the native tar support available on Windows 11 or in WSL with a Linux distro.<\/p>\n<p>In this <a href=\"https:\/\/pureinfotech.com\/tag\/how-to\/\">guide<\/a>, you will learn the steps to use native tar commands on Windows 11 using Command Prompt and Ubuntu to extract the content of a .tar.gz file.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"toc\">\n<li><a href=\"#extract_tar_without_windows10linux\">Extract .tar.gz, .tgz, .gz tarballs on Windows 11 using tar<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#extract_tar_with_windows10linux\">Extract .tar.gz, .tgz, .gz tarballs on Windows 11 using Linux tar<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"extract_tar_without_windows10linux\">Extract .tar.gz, .tgz, .gz tarballs on Windows 11 using tar<\/h2>\n<p>To extract .tar.gz, .tgz, .gz, and .zip files using tar on Windows 11, use these steps:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<p>Open <strong>Start <\/strong>on Windows 11.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Search for <strong>Command Prompt<\/strong>, right-click the top result, and select the <strong>Run as administrator <\/strong>option.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Type the following command to use tar to extract the files and press <strong>Enter<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<pre>tar -xvzf C:\/PATH\/TO\/FILE\/FILE-NAME.tar.gz -C C:\/PATH\/TO\/FOLDER\/EXTRACTION<\/pre>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-140644\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pureinfotech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/extract-tar-windows-11-cmd.webp?resize=827%2C307&#038;quality=78&#038;strip=all&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Windows 11 extract tar\" width=\"827\" height=\"307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pureinfotech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/extract-tar-windows-11-cmd.webp?w=1043&amp;quality=78&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 1043w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pureinfotech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/extract-tar-windows-11-cmd.webp?resize=300%2C111&amp;quality=78&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pureinfotech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/extract-tar-windows-11-cmd.webp?resize=1020%2C378&amp;quality=78&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 1020w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pureinfotech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/extract-tar-windows-11-cmd.webp?resize=150%2C56&amp;quality=78&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 827px) 100vw, 827px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the command, change the command to include the source and destination paths.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Once you complete the steps, the files and folders will be extracted to the specified destination.<\/p>\n<p>It is assumed the tarball was created on another system. Also, we skipped some options that are usually useful to preserve permissions since they are not required on\u00a0 Windows 11.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"extract_tar_with_windows10linux\">Extract .tar.gz, .tgz, .gz tarballs on Windows 11 using Linux tar<\/h2>\n<p>You first have to <a href=\"https:\/\/pureinfotech.com\/install-wsl-windows-11\/\">install a distro<\/a> using the Windows Subsystem for Linux before you can extract tarballs on Linux.<\/p>\n<p>To extract a <strong>.tar.gz<\/strong> file using Linux, use these steps:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<p>Open <strong>Start<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Search for <strong>Ubuntu<\/strong> and click the top result to open the app.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Type the following command to extract the content of the <strong>.tar.gz<\/strong> file and press <strong>Enter<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo tar -xvzf \/mnt\/c\/PATH\/TO\/TAR-FILE\/Desktop\/FILE-NAME.tar.gz -C \/mnt\/c\/PATH\/TO\/DESTINATION\/FOLDER<\/pre>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-140643\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pureinfotech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/tar-gz-command-windows-11.webp?resize=827%2C321&#038;quality=78&#038;strip=all&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Linux extract tar on Windows 11\" width=\"827\" height=\"321\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pureinfotech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/tar-gz-command-windows-11.webp?w=1052&amp;quality=78&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 1052w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pureinfotech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/tar-gz-command-windows-11.webp?resize=300%2C116&amp;quality=78&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pureinfotech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/tar-gz-command-windows-11.webp?resize=1020%2C396&amp;quality=78&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 1020w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pureinfotech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/tar-gz-command-windows-11.webp?resize=150%2C58&amp;quality=78&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 827px) 100vw, 827px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the command, change the syntax to include the source and destination paths. If it&#8217;s only a <strong>.tar<\/strong> file, use the same command but omit the <strong>z<\/strong> argument.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>We used the <code>sudo<\/code> command to run the tool as an administrator, <code>tar<\/code> to call the application, and we use these options:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>x:<\/strong>\u00a0instructs tar you want to extract content.<\/li>\n<li><strong>v:<\/strong>\u00a0optional argument to display the extraction process. Otherwise, you will only see a blinking cursor until the process is complete.<\/li>\n<li><strong>z:<\/strong>\u00a0tells tar to uncompress the content of a &#8220;.tar.gz&#8221; file with gzip.<\/li>\n<li><strong>f:<\/strong> instructs tarball to extract the name of the file.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After the option, you have to specify the path of the tarball file to extract. In the command, we start the path with\u00a0<code>\/mnt\/c\/<\/code> since this is Linux, not Windows.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>-C &#8212;<\/strong> (hyphen and capital <strong>C<\/strong>) option is used to change folders, and you have to specify the destination path, which starts with the <code>\/mnt\/<\/code> annotation followed by the Windows path.<\/p>\n<p>You must pay attention to uppercase and lowercase while typing a Linux command since <strong>&#8220;Desktop&#8221;<\/strong> is not the same as <strong>&#8220;desktop.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>These are the basic options to extract a &#8220;.tar.gz&#8221; file, but you can use the <code>tar --help<\/code> command to learn more about the available options.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s important to note that Windows 11 now includes <a href=\"https:\/\/pureinfotech.com\/window-11-extract-rar-7zip-archival-formats\/\">native support for TAR, GZ, 7-Zip, RAR<\/a>, and many other archival formats in File Explorer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tarballs are common on Linux and macOS, but Windows 11 can extract them natively using the tar command or a Linux distro in WSL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186207,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[97,19,2715,2576],"class_list":["post-140637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-windows","tag-difficulty-level-advanced","tag-how-to","tag-windows-11","tag-windows-help"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>How to extract .tar.gz files on Windows 11 - Pureinfotech<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"To extract .tar.gz files on Windows 11 use the tar -xvzf source -C destination or sudo tar -xvzf \/mnt\/c\/source -C \/mnt\/c\/destination commands.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/pureinfotech.com\/extract-tar-gz-files-windows-11\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How to extract .tar.gz files on Windows 11 without installing anything\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"To extract .tar.gz files on Windows 11 use the tar -xvzf source -C destination or sudo tar -xvzf \/mnt\/c\/source -C \/mnt\/c\/destination commands.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/pureinfotech.com\/extract-tar-gz-files-windows-11\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pureinfotech \u2022 Windows 10 &amp; 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