Ship a ZIP to a Linux box as a native tarball
Windows-side archives converted to the form remote servers and containers handle best.
Runs in your browser. Your file never leaves your computer.
- DestinationServers, containers, scripts
- OutputStandard .tar.gz
- Protected ZIPsSupported; password asked
- RebuiltLocally
Files zipped on a desktop and destined for a Linux server, a container build or a remote script travel better as tarballs, the form that side unpacks by reflex. Conversion reads the ZIP, preserves its tree, and emits a gzip-compressed tar ready for scp, CI artifacts or a Dockerfile ADD. Compression stays in the same league. Password-protected ZIPs are supported as sources, asking for the password first, and the rebuild is done entirely in your browser.
Questions
Does a password-protected ZIP convert?
Yes, uniquely among the source formats here: enter the password and the contents repack into the tarball, unencrypted.
Are permissions added for Unix use?
Standard defaults are applied; specific execute bits are a post-extraction chmod, as ZIPs never carried them.
Local process?
Entirely, from read to rebuilt tarball.
Related conversions
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- Password-protect ZIPA ZIP re-packed with AES-256: contents unchanged, opening now requires the phrase you set.
- RAR to tar.gzArchives headed to servers and build systems, repacked into the bundle Linux tools expect.
- 7z to tar.gzFrom the Windows power-user format to the Unix standard bundle, restructured in one pass.
- TAR to tar.gzThe missing compression layer added: same bundle, gzip-packed, as the tools always intended.
- BZ2 to tar.gzOld bzip2 tarballs re-wrapped in the compression today's pipelines default to.
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