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Convert TAR to ZIP
A tarball from a Linux server or a source release has to be opened by someone on Windows.
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What actually changes
TAR and ZIP are not the same picture in two wrappers.
TAR is a container with no compression at all, so the files are read out and compressed as they are written into the ZIP. The result is normally much smaller than the TAR it came from.
Worth knowing first
TAR stores Unix permissions, ownership and symbolic links, and ZIP has no standard way to carry them. Executable bits are lost and symlinks are either dereferenced into copies or dropped, which silently breaks source trees and deployment bundles.
Questions
TAR to ZIP, answered
Why does TAR not compress?
It was designed for tape archives. Compression is applied afterwards by gzip or xz, which is why .tar.gz exists.
Will my scripts still be executable?
No. Re-apply the executable bit after extracting on a Unix system.
How to convert TAR to ZIP
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ZIP Archive is lossless, so nothing is thrown away in the conversion.
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Converted and deleted the moment it finishes. Never written to permanent storage.