Tradional Usage
  tar {A|c|d|r|t|u|x}[GnSkUWOmpsMBiajJzZhPlRvwo] [ARG...]

It is invigorating.

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[–] 2 points 5 hours ago

Same. And if it's compressed you just add the appropriate shorthand in the letter soup somewhere in the middle:
z for gzip j for bzip (for some reason)
..and I'm sure the other common algorithms have associated letters in tar. If not, pipe it

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