cmd/txtar: add a minimal command for creating txtar archives

I've been working on a design doc for a lazy module loading algorithm,
and I want to be able to present examples as txtar archives (because
that's what the eventual integration tests will be anyway).

But I also want to be able to run the 'go' command interactively in
those archives (to figure out what the behavior today is and how it
would change), and if I decide that I need to change the example it
becomes tedious to edit it locally and then repackage it.

This change adds a minimal binary for constructing and unpacking
archives. The comment section (which is usually relevant to the test)
and the archive itself are passed on stdin and stdout, and files are
read or written relative to the working directory of the command. A
list of files and/or directories can be passed explicitly at creation
time (to bypass extraneous files such as Git metadata).

Since the cmd/go tests in many cases use paths relative to the $WORK
or $GOPATH variables, this binary expands shell variables during both
creation and extraction.

A similar set of utility programs can be found in
github.com/rogpeppe/go-internal/cmd. While those programs are useful,
they are somewhat more flag-intensive, do not support shell-escaped
paths or explicit file lists, and do not extract or accept comment
text on stdio and stdout.

Change-Id: Ibfd2f7b308151b5588bba14c9d66c59453fbdbe0
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/exp/+/218498
Run-TryBot: Bryan C. Mills <bcmills@google.com>
TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <gobot@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Jay Conrod <jayconrod@google.com>
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