tar

Archive tool.

$ tar -czf out.tgz dir/
$ tar -cJf out.txz dir/
$ tar --zstd -cf out.tar.zst dir/
$ tar -xzf out.tgz
$ tar -xf out.tar.zst
$ tar -tf out.tgz
$ tar -czf - dir/ | ssh host 'tar -xzf - -C /target'