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pax

Archiving and copying utility.

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• List the contents of an archive:

pax -f {archive.tar}

• List the contents of a gzipped archive:

pax -zf {archive.tar.gz}

• Create an archive from files:

pax -wf {target.tar} {path/to/file1} {path/to/file2} {path/to/file3}

• Create an archive from files, using output redirection:

pax -w {path/to/file1} {path/to/file2} {path/to/file3} > {target.tar}

• Extract an archive into the current directory:

pax -rf {source.tar}

• Copy to a directory, while keeping the original metadata; `target/` must exist:

pax -rw {path/to/file1} {path/to/directory1} {path/to/directory2} {target/}

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