diff --git a/generate-tarball.sh b/generate-tarball.sh
index 782770d..b3a670f 100755
--- a/generate-tarball.sh
+++ b/generate-tarball.sh
@@ -9,13 +9,13 @@ wget "https://github.com/jhy/${name}/archive/${name}-${version}.tar.gz" -O "${na
 
 rm -rf tarball-tmp
 mkdir tarball-tmp
-cd tarball-tmp
+pushd tarball-tmp
 tar xf "../${name}-${version}.orig.tar.gz"
 
 # CLEAN TARBALL
 # contains scraped news articles (non-free)
 rm -r */src/test/resources
 
-tar cf "../${name}-${version}.tar.gz" *
-cd ..
+tar -czf "../${name}-${version}.tar.gz" *
+popd
 rm -r tarball-tmp "${name}-${version}.orig.tar.gz"