What is the difference between .tar and .bz2?
- Extension
- .tar
- .bz2
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Other
- Compressed
- Developer
- Jean-loup Gailly
- Julian Seward
- Description
- Tar archive created by tar, a Unix-based utility used to package files together; contains multiple files stored in an uncompressed format; commonly compressed into a .GZ file using GNU Zip compression.
- 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-tar
- application/x-bzip2
- Sample
- sample.tar
- sample.bz2
- Wikipedia
- .tar on Wikipedia
- .bz2 on Wikipedia