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Pax differs from cpio by recursively considering the content of a directory; to disable this behavior, POSIX pax has an option -d to disable it. The pax command is a mish-mash of cpio and tar features. Like tar, pax processes directory entries recursively, a feature that can be disabled with -d for cpio-style behavior.
Info-ZIP is a set of open-source software to handle ZIP archives.It has been in circulation since 1989. It consists of 4 separately-installable packages: the Zip and UnZip command-line utilities; and WiZ and MacZip, which are graphical user interfaces for archiving programs in Microsoft Windows and classic Mac OS, respectively.
xz, the command-line compressor and decompressor (analogous to gzip) liblzma , a software library with an API similar to zlib Various command shortcuts exist, such as lzma (for xz --format=lzma ), unxz (for xz --decompress ; analogous to gunzip ) and xzcat (for unxz --stdout ; analogous to zcat ).
gzip is a file format and a software application used for file compression and decompression.The program was created by Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler as a free software replacement for the compress program used in early Unix systems, and intended for use by GNU (from which the "g" of gzip is derived).
cpio is a general file archiver utility and its associated file format.It is primarily installed on Unix-like computer operating systems. The software utility was originally intended as a tape archiving program as part of the Programmer's Workbench (), and has been a component of virtually every Unix operating system released thereafter.
Property list files use the filename extension.plist, and thus are often referred to as p-list files. Property list files are often used to store a user's settings. They are also used to store information about bundles and applications , a task served by the resource fork in the old Mac OS.
bzip2 is a free and open-source file compression program that uses the Burrows–Wheeler algorithm.It only compresses single files and is not a file archiver.It relies on separate external utilities such as tar for tasks such as handling multiple files, and other tools for encryption, and archive splitting.
ZPAQ is an open source command line archiver for Windows and Linux.It uses a journaling or append-only format which can be rolled back to an earlier state to retrieve older versions of files and directories.