Snippet: Create Tar Archives With or Without Zstandard Compression#

# Create an uncompressed tar archive
tar -cvf archive.tar folder
tar -cvf archive.tar .

# Create a Zstandard-compressed tar archive
tar -cf - . | zstd -T0 -19 -o ../archive.tar.zst

Snippet: Create Tar Archives With or Without Zstandard Compression

https://blog.juyung.com/posts/en/2026/10/20-9/

Author

Jay Juyung

Published at

2026-10-20

License

CC BY

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