diff --git a/Source/cmFileCommand.cxx b/Source/cmFileCommand.cxx
index 7d05347478..1cfe29c05a 100644
--- a/Source/cmFileCommand.cxx
+++ b/Source/cmFileCommand.cxx
@@ -3113,6 +3113,7 @@ bool HandleGetRuntimeDependenciesCommand(std::vector<std::string> const& args,
     return false;
   }
 
+  // Arguments that are allowed to be empty lists.  Keep entries sorted!
   const std::vector<std::string> LIST_ARGS = {
     "DIRECTORIES",
     "EXECUTABLES",
@@ -3402,8 +3403,13 @@ bool HandleArchiveCreateCommand(std::vector<std::string> const& args,
     return false;
   }
 
+  // Arguments that are allowed to be empty lists.  Keep entries sorted!
   const std::vector<std::string> LIST_ARGS = {
-    "OUTPUT", "FORMAT", "COMPRESSION", "COMPRESSION_LEVEL", "MTIME", "PATHS"
+    "MTIME", // "MTIME" should not be in this list because it requires one
+             // value, but it has long been accidentally accepted without
+             // one and treated as if an empty value were given.
+             // Fixing this would require a policy.
+    "PATHS", // "PATHS" is here only so we can issue a custom error below.
   };
   auto kwbegin = keywordsMissingValues.cbegin();
   auto kwend = cmRemoveMatching(keywordsMissingValues, LIST_ARGS);
@@ -3530,8 +3536,8 @@ bool HandleArchiveExtractCommand(std::vector<std::string> const& args,
     return false;
   }
 
-  const std::vector<std::string> LIST_ARGS = { "INPUT", "DESTINATION",
-                                               "PATTERNS" };
+  // Arguments that are allowed to be empty lists.  Keep entries sorted!
+  const std::vector<std::string> LIST_ARGS = { "PATTERNS" };
   auto kwbegin = keywordsMissingValues.cbegin();
   auto kwend = cmRemoveMatching(keywordsMissingValues, LIST_ARGS);
   if (kwend != kwbegin) {
diff --git a/Tests/RunCMake/File_Archive/RunCMakeTest.cmake b/Tests/RunCMake/File_Archive/RunCMakeTest.cmake
index 3908f42438..dad0dd36c3 100644
--- a/Tests/RunCMake/File_Archive/RunCMakeTest.cmake
+++ b/Tests/RunCMake/File_Archive/RunCMakeTest.cmake
@@ -13,6 +13,9 @@ run_cmake(zip)
 # Extracting only selected files or directories
 run_cmake(zip-filtered)
 
+run_cmake(create-missing-args)
+run_cmake(extract-missing-args)
+
 run_cmake(unsupported-format)
 run_cmake(zip-with-bad-compression)
 run_cmake(7zip-with-bad-compression)
diff --git a/Tests/RunCMake/File_Archive/create-missing-args-result.txt b/Tests/RunCMake/File_Archive/create-missing-args-result.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d00491fd7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Tests/RunCMake/File_Archive/create-missing-args-result.txt
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+1
diff --git a/Tests/RunCMake/File_Archive/create-missing-args-stderr.txt b/Tests/RunCMake/File_Archive/create-missing-args-stderr.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ecfe401b8f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Tests/RunCMake/File_Archive/create-missing-args-stderr.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+^CMake Error at create-missing-args.cmake:[0-9]+ \(file\):
+  file Keywords missing values:
+
+    OUTPUT
+    FORMAT
+    COMPRESSION
+    COMPRESSION_LEVEL
+Call Stack \(most recent call first\):
+  CMakeLists.txt:[0-9]+ \(include\)$
diff --git a/Tests/RunCMake/File_Archive/create-missing-args.cmake b/Tests/RunCMake/File_Archive/create-missing-args.cmake
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a0c84d2dd0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Tests/RunCMake/File_Archive/create-missing-args.cmake
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+file(ARCHIVE_CREATE
+  OUTPUT              # missing output path
+  FORMAT              # missing output format
+  COMPRESSION         # missing compression type
+  COMPRESSION_LEVEL   # missing compression level
+  MTIME               # missing modification time
+  PATHS               # no paths
+  )
diff --git a/Tests/RunCMake/File_Archive/extract-missing-args-result.txt b/Tests/RunCMake/File_Archive/extract-missing-args-result.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d00491fd7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Tests/RunCMake/File_Archive/extract-missing-args-result.txt
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+1
diff --git a/Tests/RunCMake/File_Archive/extract-missing-args-stderr.txt b/Tests/RunCMake/File_Archive/extract-missing-args-stderr.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..96c779f581
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Tests/RunCMake/File_Archive/extract-missing-args-stderr.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+^CMake Error at extract-missing-args.cmake:[0-9]+ \(file\):
+  file Keywords missing values:
+
+    INPUT
+    DESTINATION
+Call Stack \(most recent call first\):
+  CMakeLists.txt:[0-9]+ \(include\)$
diff --git a/Tests/RunCMake/File_Archive/extract-missing-args.cmake b/Tests/RunCMake/File_Archive/extract-missing-args.cmake
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..21c5d997a4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Tests/RunCMake/File_Archive/extract-missing-args.cmake
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+file(ARCHIVE_EXTRACT
+  INPUT         # missing input
+  DESTINATION   # missing destination
+  PATTERNS      # no patterns
+  )