Command-line tool

pax

brew/pax

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Portable Archive Interchange archive tool

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At a glance

Type

Command-line tool

Install on

macOS, Linux

Last checked

25 Oct 2026, 21:09 UTC

Install it

macOS

brew install pax

Linux

brew install pax

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 ...

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