What is a .TAR file?
TAR bundles many files into one, usually before compressing with gzip or another tool. Standard on Unix and Linux.
- Did you know
- TAR dates back to 1979 Unix; the name is short for "tape archive".
- A tar archive is built from 512-byte blocks and ends with two all-zero blocks marking the end of the archive.
- On the web a .TAR file is served with the MIME type
application/x-tar.
- What Analyser shows you
- Browse the file tree and compression details of archives without extracting them: ZIP in pure JavaScript, and RAR, 7z, TAR and compressed tarballs (.tar.gz / .tgz, .tar.xz, .tar.zst, .tar.bz2) through a bundled libarchive engine - click any file inside to analyse it. A single compressed stream (.gz, .xz, .zst, .lz4, .lzma, .Z) is decompressed so the file within can be opened; bare .bz2 streams are identified only.
- Open a .TAR file
- Drag a .TAR file onto the Analyser home page (or tap to pick one). It opens entirely in your browser - nothing is uploaded, there is no account, and it works offline once installed.