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How to create an empty tgz file? I tried

tar czvf /tmp/empty.tgz --from-file /dev/null
tar: Option --from-file is not supported
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The switch you're looking for is --files-from or -T:

tar czvf /tmp/empty.tgz --files-from=/dev/null
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