Cpio

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Cpio

http://www.gnu.org/software/cpio/
GNU 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 cpio supports the following archive formats: binary, old ASCII, new ASCII, crc, HPUX binary, HPUX old ASCII, old tar, and POSIX.1 tar. The tar format is provided for compatibility with the tar program. By default, cpio creates binary format archives for compatibility with older cpio programs. When extracting from archives, cpio automatically recognizes which kind of archive it is reading and can read archives created on machines with a different byte-order.

Documentation

User reference included; User reference manual available in Texinfo, DVI, PostScript, HTML, and plaintext formats from http://www.gnu.org/software/cpio/manual/index.html

Related Projects

• GNU tar
• Paxutils
• S tar
• Gnuit

This is a GNU package

Download

Download version 2.11 (stable)
released on 10 March 2010

VCS Checkout

:pserver:anoncvs@subversions.gnu.org:/cvsroot/cpio co cpio,

Categories

• Interface:command-line
• System-administration:backup
• Use:system-administration
• Works-with:archive

Licensing

License	Verified by	Verified on	Notes
GPLv3orlater	Kelly Hopkins	10 March 2010

Leaders and contributors

Contact(s)	Role
Sergey Poznyakoff	Maintainer

Resources and communication

Audience	Resource type	URI
Developer	VCS Repository Webview	http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/cpio/cpio
Developer	VCS Repository Webview
Bug Tracking	E-mail	mailto:bug-cpio@gnu.org

Software prerequisites

Kind	Description
Required to build	libc6

This entry (in part or in whole) was last reviewed on 23 June 2009.

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