What is the difference between .tgz and .rar?
- Extension
- .tgz
- .rar
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Compressed
- Developer
- GNU
- Eugene Roshal
- 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 RAR file is an archive that contains one or more files compressed with RAR compression. It uses a higher compression ratio than typical ZIP compression and incorporates a proprietary compression algorithm that is now used by other compressors, including 7-Zip for its .7Z files. RAR files may be extracted using a variety of programs.
- MIME Type
- application/x-compressed
- application/x-rar-compressed
- Sample
- sample.tgz
- sample.rar
- Wikipedia
- .tgz on Wikipedia
- .rar on Wikipedia