What is the difference between .tgz and .tar.7z?
- Extension
- .tgz
- .tar.7z
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Compressed
- Developer
- GNU
- Igor Pavlov
- 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 format works based on the LZMA principle compression algorithm. It was originally used in 7-Zip archives. tar.7z archives were created for storing info about file owners and for ease of use in Unix systems, based on a TAR archiving tool.
- MIME Type
- application/x-compressed
- application/x-7z-compressed
- Sample
- sample.tgz
- Wikipedia
- .tgz on Wikipedia
- .tar.7z on Wikipedia