The subsequent Linux commands add an extra option that tells Tar which particular type of compression to use: z uses gzip compression, j uses bzip2 compression and J uses xz compression.

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.

Linux commands for compressing files tar zip gzip bzip2 xz tar The tar command is not specifically a compression command.