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Questions tagged [pax]

pax is the POSIX standard archiving utility - use this tag for questions about installing or using it

pax is the "portable archive interchange" utility and format:

The pax utility was new for the ISO POSIX-2:1993 standard. It represents a peaceful compromise between advocates of the historical tar and cpio utilities.
- POSIX specification of the pax utility

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an executable emits “pax archive volume change required”

I'm trying to run a ./configure executable for a software (I'm doing it through a remote Linux machine using PuTTY) and at some point it says: ATTENTION! pax archive volume change required. Ready for archive volume: 1 Input archive name or "." to…
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extracting to a directory other than the current directory with pax archiver

I have a strange behaviour with the pax archiver here, had too much troubles with tar and it's absolute path, that's why I gave pax a shot. The below oneliner is used under FreeBSD 9.2 to extract encrypted archives. Basically it works quite well,…
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Tar ignore or fix checksum

I have a archive backup.tar that was created with a nonstandard program a long time ago. I no longer have access to the original program. The archive is Not compressed (gzip). When trying to extract the archive files, I receive an Unexpected EOF…
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pax, invalid replacement string option

I'm having a little trouble understanding what's happening in a Perl script that uses pax. Background: Feeding a .tgz file to pax and unpacking to get a folder full of files. This is the thing I don't understand: pax -r -z -s '/.*\\//directory\\//p'…
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What are the relative merits of the various standard Unix archival utilities?

There are many archival tools for Unix, with varying degrees of availability. To make matters more confusing, many of them can write each other's formats. I am seeking more information on their relative merits, and why I would want one over another…
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want to copy multiple *.txt files from several directories to the same directory but rename the new file

I have atleast 2-3 *.txt files inside several hundred directories. What I need is: 1. copy the *.txt from every directory to the same directory but by renaming the filename to *_name.txt (* should be the original name of the .txt and the string…
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How is pax used by llpp pdf viewer?

Yesterday I installed llpp. In the help file it states: double/triple/quadruple/quintuple clicks in view mode will pipe the word/line/block/page through pax command when Ctrl is held and selection command otherwise It also specifies these key…
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Is there a backup utility to backup to LTO tape that's not TAR, PAX, or CPIO?

I'm using Solaris 11.3 and wish to occasionally backup a bunch of large VM's and disk images directly to a used LTO6 tape drive bought off Ebay but even though Solaris TAR has the "E" flag to allow files > 8GB in size this is of no use to me because…
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Create absolute path in cpio archive

I build some archive for linux kernel it need an archive file with absolute path. File are under folder /data/ when I pack normally it keeps file path like this bin/ln bin/ls etc the command I used is like this cd /data find|cpio -o -H newc -F…
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pax command for incremental backup with hard links similar to rsync

I discovered the pax command recently, and was amazed at how efficient it is when copying locally from one SSD to another, for instance. For local backup, I'm contemplating replacing a rsync solution with pax, however pax seems to be missing the…
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Firefox mysteriously crashing

I just started Firefox on my Gentoo machine upon which it crashed with ATTENTION: default value of option force_s3tc_enable overridden by environment. Now, a bit of research gave me nothing tangible but the vague impression that the root cause of…
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Is possible to remove "on fly" the full path using tar?

I have some mp3 on various dir. I did find $HOME -name *.mp3|pax -wf arch.tar The command works fine,but when extract, it recreate the full dirs for example tar -tvf…
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