tar2gz Files

Welcome to the tar.gz.7-zip Wiki!

Have you had the need to create a tar.gz file from Windows in one fell swoop but never found a good way to do it? Neither have I! But this lazily made batch file does the trick for my needs, and hopefully will for you too.

Put it in the 7-zip program folder and then create a shortcut on your desktop. Then, whenever you want to tar.gz something, be it a single file, folder, or horde of files, simply drag it to the shortcuts' icon and voila! Your output tar.gz file will be in the same location as the original file(s) or folder(s) you dragged in.

32-bit _ C:\Program Files (x86)\7-Zip
64-bit _ C:\Program Files\7-Zip

Only known issue so far is that any text after the last dot/period in a file name (file extension OR folder name) will be cut off from the name of the output.tar.gz file. Dragging the C:\data_files\work_for_boss.roflcopter\ folder would result in a work_for_boss.tar.gz file, leaving off the roflcopter part, which in this case, is probably a good thing. (Unless your boss is like, totally cool, or something.)

Please feel free to message me with ANY improvements you'd like to make, because quite frankly, this is by all means a very poorly implemented script. Oh and I take no responsibility if this causes your computer to go BOOM!, your Dropbox to delete itself, or cake to magically rain from the sky. (But you do have to share some of it, especially chocolate tuxedo cake.)

Erik Wright