- Extension
- .tgz
- .bzip2
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Compressed
- Developer
- GNU
- bzip2
- Description
- 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.
- It is an open-source file compressor and decompressor that is freely available and uses the Burrows-Wheeler codec. It isn't a file archiver as it compresses single files.
- MIME Type
- application/x-compressed
- application/x-bzip2
