How to add zstd and lz4 algorithm to tar on MacOS?

Question

So my tar version on MacOS doesn't seem to support the zstd or lz4 algorithms, and I am unsure how to update tar or add support for it. My Ubuntu's tar version seems to have support for zstd.

Answer 1

Here is how you can use zstd with older versions of tar.

tar cvf - "directory" | zstd > "archive.tar.zstd"

You also might want to check out gnu-tar from homebrew.