In this how-to, we will look at how to work with tar archives via the terminal, including two of the most popular compression methods to squeeze every last byte of space.

Here, we use only the --create option with Tar. The lack of a destination causes Tar to send the archive data to standard output, which is then piped to the sdc compressor program.

How to Convert TAR to TGZ. The TAR, or Tape Archive, file format was developed to simplify the process of storing and distributing multiple Unix operating system files.