pax

Portable Archive Interchange for AIX.

AIX

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Syntax

$pax [OPTIONS] [PATTERN...]

Examples

$pax -w -f archive.pax .

Examples

$pax -r -f archive.pax

Examples

$pax -w -x ustar -f archive.tar .

Typical use cases

Create archive

pax -w -f archive.pax .

Extract archive

pax -r -f archive.pax

tar-compatible

pax -w -x ustar -f archive.tar .

Note AIX version of the POSIX pax archiving tool.

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