The tar command is famously hard to use.

To create a tarball, remember "Create A File":

tar -caf my_archive.tar.gz file1.txt file2.png

To extract a tarball, remember "eXtract A File":

tar -xaf my_archive.tar.gz

(This works great on Linux. On macOS and some other systems, the -a flag causes problems during extraction—use -xf instead.)

https://evanhahn.com/mnemonic-to-remember-tar-commands/

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