What is the difference between .tgz and .gz?
- Extension
- .tgz
- .gz
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Compressed
- Developer
- GNU
- The GNU Project
- 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.
- This is a compressed archive file that contains one or more files compressed by standard GNU zip (gzip) compression algorithm. It is mainly used by Unix OS.
- MIME Type
- application/x-compressed
- application/x-compressed
- Sample
- sample.tgz
- sample.gz
- Wikipedia
- .tgz on Wikipedia
- .gz on Wikipedia