What is the difference between .gz and .tbz2?
- Extension
- .gz
- .tbz2
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Compressed
- Developer
- The GNU Project
- Bzip2
- Description
- This is a compressed archive file that contains one or more files compressed by standard GNU zip (gzip) compression algorithm. It is mainly used by Unix OS.
- File archive compressed with both .TAR and .BZ2 compression; often found on Unix systems; must first be decompressed (using Bzip 2 decompression), then the files must be extracted from the tar archive.
- MIME Type
- application/x-compressed
- application/x-bzip2
- Sample
- sample.gz
- Wikipedia
- .gz on Wikipedia
- .tbz2 on Wikipedia