What is the difference between .bzip2 and .tar?
- Extension
- .bzip2
- .tar
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Other
- Developer
- bzip2
- Jean-loup Gailly
- Description
- It is an open-source file compressor and decompressor that is freely available and uses the Burrows-Wheeler codec. It isn't a file archiver as it compresses single files.
- Tar archive created by tar, a Unix-based utility used to package files together; contains multiple files stored in an uncompressed format; commonly compressed into a .GZ file using GNU Zip compression.
- MIME Type
- application/x-bzip2
- application/x-tar
- Sample
- sample.tar
- Wikipedia
- .bzip2 on Wikipedia
- .tar on Wikipedia