Oct 9, 2023 · Here I test the efficiency of tar, zip and gz archive utilities while explaining the difference between the three.

tar gz is better for Linux/Unix as it retains permissions, such as "executable" on scripts. OS X's Archive Utility and zip / unzip preserve permissions, but there might be other utilities that don't.

A zip archive is a collection of compressed files. A gzipped tar is a compressed collection (of uncompressed files). Thus a zip archive is a randomly accessible list of concatenated compressed items, and a .tar.gz is an archive that must be fully expanded before the catalog is accessible.

Aug 9, 2010 · If you do add compress the tar (e.g. to get a .tar.gz or .tar.bz2), you're compressing the whole tar file at once. In contrast, zip compresses each file individually. The efficiency depends on the workload.

Jan 13, 2023 · Gzip is very old and slow and inefficient, there's alternatives that achieve much higher compression or higher speed, or any mixture of that (e.g., zstd, lz4) tar: Short for tape archiver; a very common archiver that you can also tell to compress stuff. For example: creates an uncompressed archive containing file1, file2 and file3.

Dec 9, 2024 · What Is Tar.gz vs. ZIP? Tar.gz: A tar.gz file combines the gzip compression algorithm with tar archiving. It typically offers a better compression ratio and retains Unix permissions.

Nov 5, 2014 · Tar formats like .tar.gz and .tar.bz2 are supported out-of-the-box on Linux, too. Chrome OS: Zip and RAR are both supported. Tar.gz and tar.bz2 can also be opened in the Files app, and the contents can be extracted. Windows is the biggest stick-in-the-mud here -- it only supports Zip files, so Zip is the most universal format.

Aug 11, 2021 · tar.gz is basically a zip, just with a different compression algorithm, IIRC the main difference is that in a zip, the files are all compressed individually, whereas a tarball compresses them together (it essentially looks for similarities in data).

Oct 25, 2018 · .tar.gz file is often called as .tgz; 5) .zip. It does the purpose of tar as well as have built-in compression; It is mostly common in Windows rather than Unix; Command to both archive and compress files in terminal (MAC):

Dec 24, 2013 · The main difference between zlib and gzip wrapping is that the zlib wrapping is more compact, six bytes vs. a minimum of 18 bytes for gzip, and the integrity check, Adler-32, runs faster than the CRC-32 that gzip uses.