tar is a program which combine several files into one (eg: files.tar). gz or gzip is a program to compress files (eg: files.gz). Both are Linux programs. A tar.gz file is a resulting file from several files combined together and then compressed. To combine and compress a folder: tar czf filename.tar.gz /path/to/some/folder To extract a tar.gz file: tar -zxvf filename.tar.gz…