What is the difference between .tar and .tgz?
- Extension
- .tar
- .tgz
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Other
- Compressed
- Developer
- Jean-loup Gailly
- GNU
- 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.
- Unix .TAR file archive compressed with Gnu Zip (.GZIP) compression; uses a TAR archive to bundle the files together and Gzip compression to reduce the file size; commonly used on Unix and Linux systems; originally created as the shorthand version of the compound extension .TAR.GZ.
- MIME Type
- application/x-tar
- application/x-compressed
- Sample
- sample.tar
- sample.tgz
- Wikipedia
- .tar on Wikipedia
- .tgz on Wikipedia