What is the difference between .tgz and .zip?
- Extension
- .tgz
- .zip
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Compressed
- Developer
- GNU
- Phil Katz
- 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 ZIP file is an archive that contains one or more files compressed or "zipped" using Zip compression. It stores files separately from each other allowing the files to be compressed using different methods and extracted without compressing or decompressing the entire archive.
- MIME Type
- application/x-compressed
- application/zip
- Sample
- sample.tgz
- sample.zip
- Wikipedia
- .tgz on Wikipedia
- .zip on Wikipedia