What is the difference between .tar.bz and .tar?
- Extension
- .tar.bz
- .tar
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Other
- Developer
- bzip2
- Jean-loup Gailly
- Description
- This is a compressed archive in the TAR container with the help of the BZIP tool. It was created for use in Unix systems. The TAR container combines several files into one archive that’s placed in a TBZ compressed file. They’re used as installation packets in the installers of some operating systems.
- 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-bzip-compressed-tar
- application/x-tar
- Sample
- sample.tar
- Wikipedia
- .tar.bz on Wikipedia
- .tar on Wikipedia