cpio

cpio copies files into or out of a cpio or tar archive, The archive can be another file on the disk, a magnetic tape, or a pipe.

• GNU Project Homepage [EN]

• cpio [EN] @ Fedora Package
• cpio [EN] @ Homebrew Formula

Documentation

• GNU cpio Manual [EN]

• man 1 'cpio' [EN]

Parameters

-i, --extract

Run in copy-in mode.

-o, --create

Run in copy-out mode.

-p, --pass-through

Run in copy-pass mode.

-A, --append

Append to an existing archive. Only works in copy-out mode. The archive must be a disk file specified with the -O or -F (--file) option.

-d, --make-directories

Create leading directories where needed.

-m, --preserve-modification-time

Retain previous file modification times when creating files.

-O ARCHIVE

ARCHIVE filename to use instead of standard output. To use a tape drive on another machine as the archive, use a filename that starts with hostname: where hostname is the name or IP address of the machine. The hostname can be preceded by a username and an @ to access the remote tape drive as that user, if you have permission to do so.

-t, --list

Print a table of contents of the input.

Examples

Copy the content of the current directory to /backup

find '.' -depth -print | cpio --pass-through --make-directories '/backup'

Pack the content of the current directory in a file

find '.' -depth -print | cpio --create '/backup/2010-09-21.cpio'

Extract a cpio file

cpio ---extract --make-directories <'backup.cpio'