pax

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Archiving and copying utility.

Examples (6)

List the contents of an archive

pax -f archive.tar

List the contents of a `gzip` archive

pax -zf archive.tar.gz

Create an archive from files

pax -wf target.tar path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ...

Create an archive from files, using output redirection

pax -w path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ... > 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/