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