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GNU ZIP gzip compressed archive
File type: Archive and compressed file
Files with gzip extension an be usually found as compressed file archives using GNU ZIP tool. Most modern tools can extract these files.
File type category:
Archive and compressed file
Date updated: July 19, 2025
File extension gzip is related to Gzip or GNU ZIP, one of the many compression tools available for users. It is based on the DEFLATE algorithm, which is a combination of Lempel-Ziv (LZ77) and Huffman coding
A .gzip file is a compressed archive created in GZip.
MIME: application/x-compressed, application/x-gzip
Most modern archiving tools (eg. WinRAR or 7-zip) should be able to decompress .gzip and extract the file contents.
You can repack these archives to some other format using your favourit archive compressor.
Software applications that can open gzip files:
Apple macOS / Mac OS X
Software apps that create gzip files:
Linux/Unix
Software apps that extract gzip files:
Microsoft Windows
Apple macOS / Mac OS X
Linux/Unix
Apple iOS
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