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How to generate a PAX Tar archive with an Global Extended Attributes (‘g’) initial entry?

In Linux, I am trying to generate an uncompressed PAX archive containing a Global Extended Attributes entry using either one of the following commands: A) Specifying the pax options (implies –xattrs): B) Specifying xattrs support (implies –format=pax): Both commands generate a file successfully, but when I open the file with my hex editor, the first entry has the ‘x’ type,

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