# TAR.create with a collection of file paths

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/tar-create-with-a-collection-of-file-paths/48626
**Category:** General Usage
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**Created:** [October 19, 2020, 1:19pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/tar-create-with-a-collection-of-file-paths/48626 "2020-10-19T13:19:13Z")
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#### Post date: [October 19, 2020, 1:19pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/tar-create-with-a-collection-of-file-paths/48626/1 "2020-10-19T13:19:13Z")

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Is there a simple way to build a tarball from a list of files?

From the [docs](https://github.com/JuliaIO/Tar.jl#tarcreate) it seems like I’ll need to give it the parent directory of all of the files, so potentially `/`, and then a predicate function, so something like `∈([file1, file2, file3])`.

Seems convoluted compared to say `Tar.create([file1, file2, file3])`?