tar.md

tar

Compress remote file / directory over SSH and store locally

ssh <user>@<host> "tar cf - <dir>" | zstd > <archive>

Manually set the decompression program

When extracting a compressed tar archive, tar will automatically pick the decompression program. Should one want to override the default behavior and manually specify the program, use:

tar --use-compress-program=<program> -xf <input>

For example, zstd-compressed tar archive can be decompressed by --use-compress-program=unzstd.