MPE/iX Shell and Utilities Reference Manual, Vol 2

pax(1) MPE/iX Shell and Utilities pax(1)
indicates that linkname is a hard link for pathname. The next nine characters are in three
groups of three; they describe the permissions on the file. The first group of three describes
owner permissions; the second describes group permissions; the third describes other (or
world) permissions. Characters that may appear are:
r Permission to read file
w Permission to write on file
x Permission to execute file
a Archive bit is on (file has not been backed up)
s System file
h Hidden file
After the permissions comes the number of links to the file.
Next comes the name of the owner of the file or directory.
Then comes the name of the group that owns the file or directory.
Following this is the size of the file, expressed in bytes.
After this comes a date and time. For a file, this is the time that the file was last changed; for a
directory, it is the time that the directory was created.
The last item on the line is the name of the file or directory.
EXAMPLES
The following creates an archive file from all the files under the current directory.
pax -w . >/dir/archive
The following extracts all the components of an archive file and puts them into the current
directory.
pax -r * </dir/archive
DIAGNOSTICS
Possible exit status values are:
0 Successful completion.
1 An error occurred.
If pax cannot extract a particular file when reading, or find a particular file when writing, it
generates an error message and continues to process other files but returns a status of 1. If any
other sort of error occurs, pax terminates immediately without attempting further processing.
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