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.

At some point in your Linux journey, you'll need to be able to compress and decompress a folder from the command line. Jack Wallen shows you how.

Importing a previously exported .tar file If you've used the export feature to backup one of your WSL Linux distributions, then there's a good chance you might also want to use it at some point.