Beyond Linux® From Scratch (System V Edition) - Version 12.2

Chapter 12. System Utilities

Pax-20240817

Introduction to Pax

pax is an archiving utility created by POSIX and defined by the POSIX.1-2001 standard. Rather than sort out the incompatible options that have crept up between tar and cpio, along with their implementations across various versions of UNIX, the IEEE designed a new archive utility. The name “pax” is an acronym for portable archive exchange. Furthermore, “pax” means “peace” in Latin, so its name implies that it shall create peace between the tar and cpio format supporters. The command invocation and command structure is somewhat a unification of both tar and cpio.

pax has been required to be present in LSB conformant systems since LSB version 3.0.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS 12.2 platform.

Package Information

Installation of Pax

Install pax by running the following commands:.

[Note]

Note

This package expands to the directory pax. 

bash Build.sh

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

[Note]

Note

This package also creates hard links from pax to the programs cpio and tar in the build directory. The LFS editors do not recommend that they be installed as they will overwrite the GNU versions of these programs. 

install -v pax /usr/bin &&
install -v -m644 pax.1 /usr/share/man/man1

Contents

Installed Program: pax

Short Descriptions

pax

copies files to and from archives in several formats