I've run into a rash of tar.gz files on the internet today that are not actually gzipped. People seem to be just tarring things and then renaming them tar.gz! This of course makes it difficult to ...

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These steps should always work with zip files, and it also appears to work with tar.gz files. If you want to extract .rar files, though, you’ll still need to use a third-party app like iZip.

OK, I've got about 30 .tar.gz files that I'd like to decompress into a directory. What's a good way to decompress all these files without doing 'tar xzvf ...

Tar.gz: Similar to zip, tar.gz files are pretty darn fast. It's the most universally available option for Linux users, and also compresses files to a slightly smaller size than zip.

TAR files are uncompressed archives with the ".tar" file extension. The Gzip utility will compress TAR files and save your company hard drive space and network bandwidth.