What is the difference between .tgz and .tbz2?
- Extension
- .tgz
- .tbz2
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Compressed
- Developer
- GNU
- Bzip2
- 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.
- File archive compressed with both .TAR and .BZ2 compression; often found on Unix systems; must first be decompressed (using Bzip 2 decompression), then the files must be extracted from the tar archive.
- MIME Type
- application/x-compressed
- application/x-bzip2
- Sample
- sample.tgz
- Wikipedia
- .tgz on Wikipedia
- .tbz2 on Wikipedia