cpio Command Examples

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. More information: https://www.gnu.org/software/cpio.

• Take a list of file names from stdin
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  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 {{[-idv|--extract --make-directories --verbose]}} < {{archive.cpio}}