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Old 08-02-2012
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Originally Posted by alister
I've come to embrace pax. It's consistent across platforms by virtue of being the only standardized archiver.
...and by virtue of that, is almost never installed anywhere.
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Old 08-02-2012
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Originally Posted by Corona688
...and by virtue of that, is almost never installed anywhere.
If by anywhere you mean GNU/Linux systems, perhaps. I wouldn't know what they include, since I very seldom need to touch that platform.

pax is, however, present just about everywhere else, e.g., Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, Tru64, IRIX, OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD.

If a portable and robust archiver is needed, it's probably easier to install pax with a linux distribution's package manager than cope with different versions of tar and/or having to keep a wary eye on xargs' special treatment of whitespace, single-quotes, double-quotes, and underscores.

Regards,
Alister
Last edited by alister; 08-02-2012 at 04:52 PM.. Reason: Added two vibrant platforms: Tru64 and IRIX :)
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Old 08-02-2012
Unless you run your own system, you usually have very little choice in what utilities you get to use.
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