What is the difference between .tar.z and .tbz2?
- Extension
- .tar.z
- .tbz2
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Compressed
- Developer
- The GNU Project
- Bzip2
- 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.
- File archive compressed with both .TAR and .BZ2 compression; often found on Unix systems; must first be decompressed (using Bzip 2 decompression), then the files must be extracted from the tar archive.
- MIME Type
- application/x-tarz
- application/x-bzip2
- Wikipedia
- .tar.z on Wikipedia
- .tbz2 on Wikipedia