On Sun Mar 23, 2025 at 4:35 PM CET, Diederik de Haas wrote: > https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_section/Formats.html > ... > I also see 'posix' as archive format: > "The format defined by POSIX.1-2001 and later." > "This archive format will be the default format for future versions of > GNU tar." > ... > btw: Is this what you mean by 'pax'? > The serverfault page describes it as POSIX.1-2001, but the Formats page > doesn't have the word 'pax'.
Answering this myself after checking ``tar --help``: Archive format selection: pax POSIX 1003.1-2001 (pax) format posix same as pax Cheers, Diederik
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