Windows comes with the tar utility now

Recently I needed to extract a tar.gz archive on Windows as part of an automated pipeline. I tried fiddling with 7-zip and WinRAR's command-line executable but hoped for something more straightforward. I had the Linux subsystem installed, and I knew about the tar utility, so I poked around and accidentally noticed that there's a tar provided by Windows even outside WSL. tar xzf works for extracting tar.gz files from the Windows command line just like on Linux.