Please help about "pax" command

[nextstep]

Hi everyone,

I have a problem need your help about "pax" command in linux.
Exactly what I am doing that is archiving a folder (containing many files in) by using "pax" command. And further more, I want to insert some field to archived file after archived.

After searching on internet and linux's manpage to pax command, I found one way can do it by using -o option. The syntax is:

pax -w0z -o keyword=value ....

But I had tried many time on my linux (NetBSD) but I always get failure in result

Could anyone here help me resolve it please?

Thanks in advance!

[rski]

What does the failure say?

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Hi rski,

The failure message seems like error syntax. Could you give me some example for using pax with -o options to archive files.

Thanks in advance!

[sicarie]

Is it a syntax error message or not? That should tell you where your issue is

Google should also be able to provide example usages, along with man pax or pax --help (and sometimes just the command itself without options, as long as that doesn't perform a function - I'm not familiar with the pax command, so I can't say)