tar

tar incantations

tar

gzip or zstd?

• v: verbose
• r: add file to existing archive

create

• a: auto select based on file extension
• c: create archive
• f: archive name

1tar cf output.tar inputs...
2
3GZIP=-9 tar acf output.tar.gz inputs...
4ZSTD_CLEVEL=19 tar acf output.tar.zst inputs...

extract

• x: extract
• f: archive name

1tar xf input.tar
2tar xf input.tar.gz
3tar xf input.tar.zst