What is the difference between .tar.bz2 and .bz2?
- Extension
- .tar.bz2
- .bz2
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Compressed
- Developer
- The GNU Project
- Julian Seward
- Description
- It is a TAR archive file compressed using BZ2 compression codec and is popularly used to distribute Linux application packages.
- An archive file developed by Bzip2 compressor mainly found on Unix OS. Its popularly used to move Linux application packages because of its high-level compression algorithms i.e. the Burrows-Wheeler compression and Run-Length Encoding (RLE).
- MIME Type
- application/x-bzip-compressed-tar
- application/x-bzip2
- Sample
- sample.tar.bz2
- sample.bz2
- Wikipedia
- .tar.bz2 on Wikipedia
- .bz2 on Wikipedia