windows xp - How can I unzip a .tar.gz in one step (using 7-Zip)? - Super User

windows xp - How can I unzip a .tar.gz in one step (using 7-Zip)? - Super User

Not really. A .tar.gz or .tgz file really is two formats: .tar is the archive, and .gz is the compression. So the first step decompresses, and the second step extracts the archive.

To do it all in one step, you need the tar program. Cygwin includes this, as does GnuWin32.

tar xzvf foobaz.tar.gz    ; x = eXtract   ; z = filter through gZip  ; v = be Verbose (show activity)  ; f = filename

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