What is the difference between .gz and .zip?
- Extension
- .gz
- .zip
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Compressed
- Developer
- The GNU Project
- Phil Katz
- 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.
- A ZIP file is an archive that contains one or more files compressed or "zipped" using Zip compression. It stores files separately from each other allowing the files to be compressed using different methods and extracted without compressing or decompressing the entire archive.
- MIME Type
- application/x-compressed
- application/zip
- Sample
- sample.gz
- sample.zip
- Wikipedia
- .gz on Wikipedia
- .zip on Wikipedia