Command line tool like tar for php phar files?

[Bill Campbell]

Is there a command line script to extract and create phar archive
files for PHP?  Something like ``phar -cvf filename ...'' and
``phar -xvf filename'' would be nice (if one can use the word
nice in conjunction with php :-).

Bill
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Democracy, n.:
	A government of the masses.  Authority derived through mass
meeting or any other form of direct expression.  Results in mobocracy.
Attitude toward property is communistic... negating property rights.
Attitude toward law is that the will of the majority shall regulate,
whether it is based upon deliberation or governed by passion,
prejudice, and impulse, without restraint or regard to consequences.
Result is demagogism, license, agitation, discontent, anarchy.
		-- U. S. Army Training Manual No. 2000-25 (1928-1932),
		   since withdrawn.