HP-UX Reference (11i v3 07/02) - 1 User Commands N-Z (vol 2)

pax(1) pax(1)

(cd /fromdir;find . -print) | cpio -pdlum /todir

pax -rwl /fromdir /todir

tar cf archive *

pax -w -f archive *

tar xfv - < archive

pax -rv < archive

(cd /fromdir; tar cf -.)|(cd/todir; tar xf -)

pax -rw /fromdir /todir

Note: When you use the -i ﬂag (interactively renames ﬁles) on ﬁles to which there are hard links,

pax

does not create hard links to the renamed ﬁles.

WARNINGS

Because of industry standards and interoperability goals,

pax does not support the archival of ﬁles of size

8GB or larger for both

ustar and

cpio formats. Also, pax does not support user and group IDs greater

than or equal to 2048K for

ustar

format. pax does not support and user and group IDs greater than or

equal to 256K for

cpio format. With ustar format, ﬁles with user IDs greater than or equal to 2048K

are restored under the user ID of the current process, unless the user name exists. The same applies for

group IDs. In cpio format, ﬁles with user or group IDs greater than or equal to 256K will not be

recovered with the original user or group IDs respectively.

AUTHOR

pax was developed by Mark H. Colburn, OSF, and HP.