what is pax??

[Manuales]

when i typed top command, i saw a command named pax, what is that?

Thanks, Manuales

[Rainer von Bongartz · Accepted solution]

pax - Extracts, writes, and lists archive files; copies files and
directory hierarchies

[Jeff_Traigle]

An archiving utility that can read tar and cpio archives. See pax(1)

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Manuales:

'pax' is a cousin of 'tar'. Do a man 'pax' and read more.

'pax' has some superior features to tar, one benig the ability to "renmae" files as they are un-archived.

'pax' is actually used by Ignite's 'make_tape_recovery' although you can use 'tar' to read the tape.

Regards!

...JRF...

[melvyn burnard]

Portable Archive eXchange

It is a utility that can read and write either tar or cpio archives.
#man pax