What is the difference between .tar.z and .bz2?
- Extension
- .tar.z
- .bz2
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Compressed
- Developer
- The GNU Project
- Julian Seward
- Description
- A TAR.Z file is a Unix TAR archive compressed with a standard Unix compression algorithm to save disk space. It contains one or more compressed files. The file is commonly used on Unix operating systems to archive groups of files.
- 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-tarz
- application/x-bzip2
- Sample
- sample.bz2
- Wikipedia
- .tar.z on Wikipedia
- .bz2 on Wikipedia