---
name: "meat-grinder"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "gnome-utils"
version: "1.4.1.2-4"
release: "Debian 3.0 (Woody)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/meat-grinder"
---

# meat-grinder(1)

a graphical front end for tar

## NAME

meat-grinder - a graphical front end for tar

## SYNOPSIS

**meat-grinder**

or select **Archive Generator** from the **Utilities** submenu of the Main Menu.

## DESCRIPTION

**Meat-grinder** is a graphical front end for the tar unix utility. You can use drag and drop to assemble files and directories in the **meat-grinder** window.  When finished you press a button to pack all the stuff into a single tar archive.  Very handy!

For full documentation see the **meat-grinder** online help.

## AUTHOR

**Meat-grinder** was written by George Lebl (\<jirka@5z.com\>).

This manual page was written by Jochen Voss \<voss@mathematik.uni-kl.de\>.

## SEE ALSO

[**tar**(1)](/tar/1.md)