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Usage

shell

tar OPTIONS SOURCE

On options, hyphen is optional.

Option	Description
`-c` `--create`	Create tar file.
`-x` `--extract` `--get`	Extract tar file.
`-t` `--list`	List the contents of an archive.
`-C` `--directory`	Set current directory.
`-f` `--file`	Set the name of the file to create / extract.
`-h` `--dereference`	Follow symlinks; archive and dump the files they point to.
`-a` `--auto-compress`	Use archive suffix to determine the compression program.
`-J` `--xz`	Enable xz algorithm.
`-z` `--gzip` `--gunzip` `--ungzip`	Enable gnuzip algorithm.
`--zstd`	Enable zstandart algorithm.
`-v` `--verbose`	Verbosely list files processed.

Gzipped files can have .tgz or .tar.gz extensions.

Xz files have .tar.xz extension.

Zstandart files have .tar.zst extension.

Compress a folder:

shell

tar -cf grouped.tar myfolder   # Create File
tar -czf grouped.tgz myfolder  # Create Gzipped File

Extract gzipped file:

shell

tar -xzf file.tgz

List files in tar file:

shell

tar -tf file.tar

Compress with zstd and encrypt with gpg:

shell

tar --zstd -cC ~ Folder/ \
  | gpg -e --default-recipient-self > folder.tar.zst.gpg

gpg --decrypt folder.tar.zst.gpg \
    | tar --zstd -xC ~