What is the difference between .tar.z and .tar.bz2?
- Extension
- .tar.z
- .tar.bz2
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Compressed
- Developer
- The GNU Project
- The GNU Project
- 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.
- It is a TAR archive file compressed using BZ2 compression codec and is popularly used to distribute Linux application packages.
- MIME Type
- application/x-tarz
- application/x-bzip-compressed-tar
- Sample
- sample.tar.bz2
- Wikipedia
- .tar.z on Wikipedia
- .tar.bz2 on Wikipedia