'bsdtar'.md

bsdtar

-c compress

• -J xz compression
• -j bzip2 compression
• -lzma lzma compression
• -z gzip compression

-x expand
-v verbose
-p keep files permissions
-f target file (must be right before file)

Expand to current directory

bsdtar -xf file.tar.xz

Expand to target

mkdir target
bsdtar -xf file.tar.xz -C target

Expand sub directory

bsdtar -xf file.tar.xz -C target subdirectory/

Expand not include root directory of compressed.file to target

bsdtar -xf file.tar.xz --strip 1 -C target

Compress to xz

bsdtar -cJf file.tar.xz files