cli-tarHow do I use the cmd tar.exe command to compress files?

The tar.exe command is a Windows command line utility that allows you to create and manipulate tar archives. It can be used to compress files for storage or to transfer them over the internet.

The syntax for using tar.exe to compress files is:

tar.exe -cvf <archive_name.tar> <file_name>

This command will create a tar archive named archive_name.tar containing the file file_name.

The -c flag tells tar.exe to create a new archive. The -v flag tells tar.exe to display the progress of the operation. The -f flag tells tar.exe to use the following argument as the archive filename.

You can also compress multiple files into a single archive by listing them after the archive filename:

tar.exe -cvf <archive_name.tar> <file_1> <file_2> <file_3>

This command will create a tar archive named archive_name.tar containing the files file_1, file_2, and file_3.

More information about the tar.exe command can be found in the Microsoft documentation.

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