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Working with encrypted and compressed .tar.zst.age files
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  • These files typically are password / key protected.

To Install:

  • On a Mac, with Homebrew: brew install age zstd

  • On Windows, with Chocolatey: choco install -y age.portable zstandard

To decrypt and uncompress, with a password:

age --decrypt -p -o somefile.tar.zst somefile.tar.zst.age
zstd -d somefile.tar.zst
tar -xvf somefile.tar
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