🗂️ To extract files 🧽 To remove tar

to untar

1 7.7

To get files out of a tar file on a computer

verb
/ʌnˈtɑr/

Specialized

: descomprimir

Untar the downloaded file (e.g., tar xzvf Django-NNN.tar.gz, where NNN is the version number of the latest release).

Examples

You need to untar the files before you can start using the application.
To install the software, first untar the package into a designated folder.
Make sure to untar the archive to access all the project files.

Synonyms

to unzip

vsto untar

Specialized

2 3.2

Take files out of a ZIP file so you can use them

extracts files from tar archive files usually without compression

Surface Forms

untar infinitive

untared past

untared past participle

untarring present participle

untars third person singular

Morphology

untar = tar (transparent) = un + tar

If the learner knows the computing term 'tar' and the productive prefix 'un-' meaning 'remove/reverse', the verb 'untar' is directly inferable.

Etymology

Untar comes from the prefix un- meaning 'remove' (seen in words like unwrap) and tar, the name for a file package that holds many files. So to untar is to take files out of a tar package, like unwrapping a gift to get what is inside.