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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