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it will work for both file and directory .

>ls -altr
total 8
drwxr-x--- 12 abc 123 4096 Apr 25 12:31 ..
-rw-r----- 1 abc 123 0 Apr 25 12:31 tarfile.txt...

try with this :-
for tar
tar -cvf tarfile.tar tarfile
for untar
tar -xvf tarfile.tar

for tar and compress
tar -cvf - tarfile | gzip -c > tarfile.tar.gz
for untar and decompress
gzip...