Pax
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[[pax]] (Portable aRchive eXchange) is an uncompressed archive file format, and a multi-format archiving utility. | [[pax]] (Portable aRchive eXchange) is an uncompressed archive file format, and a multi-format archiving utility. | ||
Revision as of 01:02, 8 January 2015
- This article is about the archive format. For the image format, see PAX (Pick Ax).
pax (Portable aRchive eXchange) is an uncompressed archive file format, and a multi-format archiving utility.
The file format is an extension of tar format. It is rarely used, and some versions of the pax utility do not support it.
Specifications
- Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7 / IEEE Std 1003.1, 2013 Edition: pax command & interchange format
- Format of pax archives
Software
Links
- Wikipedia article (mostly about the pax utility)
- pax man page, from a version of pax that supports pax format
