What is the difference between .ar and .tar.bz2?
- Extension
- .ar
- .tar.bz2
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Compressed
- Developer
- AT&T Bell Laboratories
- The GNU Project
- Description
- AR is a Unix archive file that is purposely used to develop and update static library files for creating .deb packages. Currently, its been replaced by .tar archive file for everything except static libraries.
- It is a TAR archive file compressed using BZ2 compression codec and is popularly used to distribute Linux application packages.
- MIME Type
- application/x-archive
- application/x-bzip-compressed-tar
- Sample
- sample.tar.bz2
- Wikipedia
- .ar on Wikipedia
- .tar.bz2 on Wikipedia