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What is a shortcut way to extract the content of the .tar which is inside of the .tgz file? (For example by right-clicking and clicking extract, etc.)

I only ask because this seems to be a frequent format of certain downloads (video torrents) and I do not want to extrac the tgz, wait for the .tar to be extracted and then extract the .tar to the folder desired.

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WinRAR defaults to extracting the gzipped TAR in one step. The standard go-to program for compression, 7zip, unfortunately doesn't do it in a single step (yet), but you can double click the tar.gz and then open and extract the tar contained in it.

Apparently this is a matter of philosophy with the 7zip developers (see here). On Linux or OSX, you could just use tar xvzf myfile.tar.gz.