bz2, bz, gz

chrismiceli · 10-24-2002, 07:58 PM

what is the difference between tar.gz, tar.bz, and tar.bz2?

Thymox · 10-24-2002, 08:02 PM

.gz files are compressed with the GZip algorithm
.bz files are compressed with either the BZip algorithm or the BZip2 (and poorly named) since:
.bz2 files are compressed with the BZip2 algorithm.

They are all compressed archives of files. They are to Linux (and other *nixen) what the .zip files are to Windows and what the .lzh files are/were to the Amiga.