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cpio
Patterns are the same as those used by filename generation (see sh).
When you do not specify a pattern argument, the default pattern * is used;
as a result, cpio extracts all files.
–o Writes a new archive to the standard output (stdout), using the list of files
read from stdin. Such a list might be produced by the ls or find
commands. For example:
ls . | cpio –o >arch
uses ls to list the files of the working directory and then pipes this list as
input to cpio. The resulting archive contains the contents of all the files,
and is written to arch.
–p Is shorthand for:
cpio –o | (cd directory; cpio –i)
where cpio –i is performed in the given directory. You can use this option to
copy entire file trees.
Consult the syntax lines to determine which of the following additional options can
be applied with a particular selector option:
–a Resets the access time (of each file accessed for copying to the archive) to
what it was before the copy took place.
–B Uses buffers of 5120 bytes for input and output rather than the default
512-byte buffers.
–b Causes 16-bit words to be swapped within each longword and bytes to be
swapped within each 16-bit word of each extracted file. This facilitates the
transfer of information between different processor architectures. This is
equivalent to specifying both the –s and –S options.
–C blocksize
Sets the buffer size to a specified blocksize, rather than the default
512-byte buffers.
–c Reads and writes header information in ASCII form. Normally, cpio writes
the header information in a compact binary format. This option produces an
archive more amenable to transfer through nonbinary streams (such as
some data communication links) and is highly recommended for those
moving data between different processors.
–d Forces the creation of necessary intermediate directories when they do not
already exist.
–f Inverts the sense of pattern matching. More precisely, cpio extracts a file
from the archive if and only if it does not match any of the pattern
arguments.
–I file Causes input to be read from the specified file, rather than from stdin.
–l Gives permission to create a link to a file rather than making a separate
copy.
–m Resets the modification time of an output file to the modification time of the
source file. Normally, when cpio copies data into a file, it sets the
modification time of the file to the time at which the file is written. This
option has no effect on directories.
–O file Causes output to be written to the specified file, rather than to stdout.
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