What is a .GZ file?
GZ is a file compressed with gzip, common on the web and on Linux.
- Did you know
- GZip was created in 1992 as a free, patent-unencumbered replacement for the older Unix compress.
- On the web a .GZ file is served with the MIME type
application/gzip. - Analyser spots a .GZ file by its signature bytes
1F 8B.
- What Analyser shows you
- Browse the file tree and compression details of archives without extracting them: ZIP in pure JavaScript, and RAR, 7z, TAR and compressed tarballs (.tar.gz / .tgz, .tar.xz, .tar.zst, .tar.bz2) through a bundled libarchive engine - click any file inside to analyse it. A single compressed stream (.gz, .xz, .zst, .lz4, .lzma, .Z) is decompressed so the file within can be opened; bare .bz2 streams are identified only.
- Open a .GZ file
- Drag a .GZ file onto the Analyser home page (or tap to pick one). It opens entirely in your browser - nothing is uploaded, there is no account, and it works offline once installed.