A TGZ file, also known as a Gzipped TAR archive, is a type of compressed file format that combines multiple files into a single archive and then compresses the archive using the Gzip algorithm. This makes TGZ files ideal for storing and transmitting large amounts of data, as they can significantly reduce the file size.

How TGZ Files Work The TAR format is a common file archiving format that simply groups multiple files into a single container. However, TAR files themselves are not compressed, so they can still be quite large, especially if they contain a lot of data. This is where the Gzip algorithm comes in. Gzip is a lossless compression algorithm that can significantly reduce the file size of a file without losing any data....

November 29, 2023 · 2 min · 413 words