I opened a PowerShell and found, to my surprise, that both curl and tar are now in Windows 10. To put directories and files into one larger file, the tar command may be used. By itself tar does not compress, though it put everything into one file to make it easier to take a snapshot of a directory structure.
The basics of tar on MS Windows 10 is to open a PowerShell window. Navigate to the top of the directory structure. Type:
tar -cf filename1 filename2 directory3 directory4 newTARfilename.tar
If you want to have ongoing feedback from the command, add the verbose flag:
tar -cvf filename1 filename2 directory3 directory4 newTARfilename.tar
This example uses PowerShell and shows the tar help, the directory, and the tar command.
PS C:\temp\showcompress> tar /?
Usage:
List: tar.exe -tf <archive-filename>
Extract: tar.exe -xf <archive-filename>
Create: tar.exe -cf <archive-filename> [filenames...]
Help: tar.exe --help
PS C:\temp\showcompress> dir
Directory: C:\temp\showcompress
Mode LastWriteTime Length Name
---- ------------- ------ ----
d----- 2021-12-29 15:59 DecemberFolder
PS C:\temp\showcompress> tar -cf DecemberFolder.tar DecemberFolder
PS C:\temp\showcompress> dir
Directory: C:\temp\showcompress
Mode LastWriteTime Length Name
---- ------------- ------ ----
d----- 2021-12-29 15:59 DecemberFolder
-a---- 2021-12-30 00:22 39059677696 DecemberFolder.tar
You may also want to explore the Compress-Archive command in Powershell.
An example curl command will look like:
C:\>curl 2600.com
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>302 Found</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Found</h1>
<p>The document has moved <a href="https://2600.com/">here</a>.</p>
</body></html>
