bash: /bin/tar: Argument list too long when compressing many files with tar

Question

I am trying compress files from an archive with the command

tar -czvf compress_file.tar.gz $(cat file_list.txt)

And I have an error

Answer 1

Use the "-T" option to pass a file to tar that contains the filenames to tar up.

tar -cv -T file_list.txt -f tarball.tar