Cpio

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GNU cpio

https://www.gnu.org/software/cpio/
Archiver that handles cpio and tar archives

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

https://www.gnu.org/software/cpio/manual/

This is a GNU package:cpio

Download

https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/cpio/cpio-2.12.tar.bz2

version 2.12 (stable)
released on 12 September 2015

User level

Intermediate

Donate link

https://my.fsf.org/donate/

Accepts cryptocurrency donations.

Paid support

https://www.fsf.org/resources/service/

VCS Checkout

git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/cpio.git

Categories

• Interface:command-line
• Programming-language:C
• Runs-on:GNU/Linux
• System-administration:backup
• Use:system-administration
• Works-with:archive

Related Projects

• Tar
• Paxutils
• S tar
• Gnuit

Licensing

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Notes

License

License:GPLv3orlater

Verified by

Kelly Hopkins

Verified on

10 March 2010

Leaders and contributors

Contact(s)	Role
Sergey Poznyakoff	Maintainer

Resources and communication

Audience	Resource type	URI
Debian (Ref)		https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/cpio
	Mailing List	https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-system-discuss/
	VCS Repository Webview	https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/cpio.git
	Mailing List	https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-cpio
	Download	https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/cpio
	General	https://translationproject.org/domain/cpio.html
Savannah (Ref)		https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/cpio

Software prerequisites

Kind	Description
Required to build	libc6

This entry (in part or in whole) was last reviewed on 14 November 2018.

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