What is the difference between .tar.gz and .zip?
- Extension
- .tar.gz
- .zip
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Compressed
- Developer
- The GNU Project
- Phil Katz
- Description
- It's a TAR archive file compressed using GNU zip compression codec. Mainly used by Linux OS to package programs, files, and installers.
- 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/gzip
- application/zip
- Sample
- sample.tar.gz
- sample.zip
- Wikipedia
- .tar.gz on Wikipedia
- .zip on Wikipedia