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Simple:
tar -(whatever options you want here, my go to is xvzf or cvzf) archive-name.tar file/folder-to-compress
Create ze vuking file
Xtraxt ze vuking file
oh my god, thank you for this
tar can do things other than this?
Oh I'm aware, I'm just saying this is what I normally do with it
I'm sorry, I was trying to be silly and poke fun at how most of us just use the one or two tar commands and it totally didn't translate in text like it did my head. Have a wonderful day good internet stranger.