Tar

Compression ratio Speed Files type Options
Bad Very good File and folders Extract single entry

Compress

val src: List[String] = List("aa.txt", "a_folder", "a/b/b.txt")
val tarFile: String = "/x/a.tar"
val compress: Try[CompressionStats] = tarCompress(src, tarFile)  

Decompress

val tarFile: String = "/x/a.tar"
val destinationFolder: String = "/foo/"
val decompress: Try[DecompressionStats] = tarDecompress(tarFile, destinationFolder)

Extract a single entry

val tarFile: String = "/x/a.tar"
val destinationFolder: String = "/foo/"
val decompress: Try[DecompressionStats] = tarDecompress(tarFile, destinationFolder, Some(List("/an/entry")))