pax

Archiving and copying utility. More information: https://manned.org/pax.1p.

• List the contents of an archive:
  pax -f {{archive.tar}}
• List the contents of a gzipped archive:
  pax -zf {{archive.tar.gz}}
• Create an archive from files:
  pax -wf {{target.tar}} {{path/to/file1}} {{path/to/file2}} {{path/to/file3}}
• Create an archive from files, using output redirection:
  pax -w {{path/to/file1}} {{path/to/file2}} {{path/to/file3}} > {{target.tar}}
• Extract an archive into the current directory:
  pax -rf {{source.tar}}
• Copy to a directory, while keeping the original metadata; target/ must exist:
  pax -rw {{path/to/file1}} {{path/to/directory1}} {{path/to/directory2}} {{target/}}