What is the difference between .tgz and .tar?
- Extension
- .tgz
- .tar
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Other
- Developer
- GNU
- Jean-loup Gailly
- 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.
- 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.
- MIME Type
- application/x-compressed
- application/x-tar
- Sample
- sample.tgz
- sample.tar
- Wikipedia
- .tgz on Wikipedia
- .tar on Wikipedia