pax

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

pax -f archive.tar

pax -zf archive.tar.gz

pax -wf target.tar path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ...

pax -w path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ... > target.tar

pax -rf source.tar

pax -rw path/to/file1 path/to/directory1 path/to/directory2 ... target/