What is the difference between .tgz and .gzip?
- Extension
- .tgz
- .gzip
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Compressed
- Developer
- GNU
- GNU
- 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.
- A compressed file format associated with GNU Zip (Gzip) that uses the DEFLATE compression algorithm, a combination of both the Huffman coding and the Lempel-Ziv (LZ77) codec.
- MIME Type
- application/x-compressed
- application/x-gzip
- Sample
- sample.tgz
- Wikipedia
- .tgz on Wikipedia
- .gzip on Wikipedia