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RAR is a proprietary archive format widely used on Windows for its solid compression, recovery records, and split-volume support. TAR.GZ (tarball) is the standard compressed archive format across the Unix/Linux ecosystem, combining tar's file bundling with gzip's DEFLATE compression. TAR.GZ is the expected format for source code releases, Linux package builds, and open-source distribution.
Converting RAR to TAR.GZ transforms a proprietary Windows-centric archive into the universal Linux distribution format. This is necessary when integrating RAR-downloaded content into Unix workflows, preparing source releases for open-source platforms, or migrating archive collections from proprietary formats to open standards.
The Unix and open-source ecosystems run on tarballs. GitHub source downloads, npm packages, Ruby gems, Python source distributions (sdist), and Debian orig tarballs all use .tar.gz. Submitting a RAR file to any of these platforms or workflows simply does not work. Converting RAR to TAR.GZ makes your content compatible with the entire open-source infrastructure.
Beyond ecosystem compatibility, TAR.GZ extraction requires no commercial license and no specialized software. Every Unix system ships with `tar` and `gzip`. RAR extraction, while free, requires the `unrar` package that is not installed by default on most systems. TAR.GZ eliminates this dependency entirely.
The RAR archive is extracted using unrar, handling RAR4 and RAR5 formats with all compression methods (store, fastest through best, solid). Extracted files are placed in a temporary directory preserving the original path hierarchy. The `tar` utility bundles the extracted tree into a POSIX-format archive stream, which is piped through `gzip` (DEFLATE level 6) to produce the compressed .tar.gz output. File permissions default to 644/755 when RAR does not carry Unix permission data.
Fully lossless. Files are extracted from RAR in their original form, bundled into tar, and compressed with gzip. No data is modified — every file is bit-for-bit identical to the RAR original. The .tar.gz file will typically be 5-15% larger than the RAR source since DEFLATE does not compress as efficiently as RAR's algorithms.
| Device | RAR | TAR.GZ |
|---|---|---|
| Windows PC | Partial | Partial |
| macOS | Partial | Partial |
| iPhone/iPad | Partial | Partial |
| Android | Partial | Partial |
| Linux | Partial | Partial |
| Web Browser | No |
RAR to TAR.GZ conversion bridges the gap between Windows file-sharing conventions and Unix/open-source distribution standards. The output works everywhere tar is available — which is everywhere Unix runs.
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| No |
| Egenskap | RAR | TAR.GZ |
|---|---|---|
| Fullt navn | RAR Archive | Gzipped Tar Archive |
| Filendelse | .rar | .tar.gz |
| Best egnet for | Strong compression | TAR + gzip |