cpio

all

Copy files in and out of archives. Supports the following archive formats: cpio's custom binary, old ASCII, new ASCII, crc, HPUX binary, HPUX old ASCII, old tar, and POSIX.1 tar.

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Options (3)

-o, --createboolean

Take a list of file names from `stdin` and add them onto an archive (copy-[o]ut) in cpio's binary forma

Example: echo "{{path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ...}}" | cpio {{[-o|--create]}} > {{archive.cpio}}

boolean

Copy all files and directories in a directory and add them onto an archive (copy-[o]ut), in verbose mode

Example: find {{path/to/directory}} | cpio {{[-ov|--create --verbose]}} > {{archive.cpio}}

boolean

Pick all files from an archive (copy-[i]n), generating directories where needed, in verbose mode

Example: cpio < {{archive.cpio}} {{[-idv|--extract --make-directories --verbose]}}

Examples (3)

Take a list of file names from `stdin` and add them onto an archive (copy-[o]ut) in cpio's binary forma

echo "path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ..." | cpio [-o|--create] > archive.cpio

Copy all files and directories in a directory and add them onto an archive (copy-[o]ut), in verbose mode

find path/to/directory | cpio [-ov|--create --verbose] > archive.cpio

Pick all files from an archive (copy-[i]n), generating directories where needed, in verbose mode

cpio < archive.cpio [-idv|--extract --make-directories --verbose]

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