TGZ

A tgz file is a compressed archive of directories and/or files that is prepared by tarring a directory, and then gzipping the resulting .tar file.

In Linux it´s used:

• To pack the command
  • Simple tar file: tar-cf tarredfilename filetopack1 filetopack2 and so on...
  • to pack and compress:

    tar-czf tarredfilename filetopack1 filetopack2 and so on...to compress in gzip

    and tar-cjf tarredfilename filetopack1 filetopack2 and so on...to compress in bzip2 file format.

• To unpack tar files
  • and uncompress gziped files, the command tar -xzf filetounpack.tar.gz
  • and uncompress bzip2ed files, tar -xjf filetounpack.tar.gz.bz2