diff --git a/pages/common/tar.md b/pages/common/tar.md
index 927d97d3f2..c43cc0115c 100644
--- a/pages/common/tar.md
+++ b/pages/common/tar.md
@@ -22,3 +22,7 @@
 - extract a bzipped archive in the current directory
 
 `tar xjf {{source.tar.bz2}}`
+
+- create a compressed archive, using archive suffix to determine the compression programm
+
+`tar caf {{target.tar.xz}} {{file1 file2 file3}}`