What is the difference between .bz and .tar.bz2?
- Extension
- .bz
- .tar.bz2
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Compressed
- Developer
- Julian Seward
- The GNU Project
- Description
- It's an archive file created using Bzip compression that uses the Burrows-Wheeler algorithm and the Run-Length Encoding (RLE) to compress. Although the compression is slower compared to Gzip compression, it's of better quality. It is mainly developed by Unix OS.
- It is a TAR archive file compressed using BZ2 compression codec and is popularly used to distribute Linux application packages.
- MIME Type
- application/x-bzip
- application/x-bzip-compressed-tar
- Sample
- sample.tar.bz2
- Wikipedia
- .bz on Wikipedia
- .tar.bz2 on Wikipedia