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Cpio - Archiver that handles various types of cpio and tar archives

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.



Obtaining

Web pagehttp://www.gnu.org/software/cpio/
Source tarballftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/cpio/cpio-2.5.tar.gz
Source informationhttp://savannah.gnu.org/projects/cpio
Version 2.4.2 (stable) released on 1996-01-16
Licensed under The GNU General Public License, Version 2.
This is a GNU package.

Documentation
User reference included
Support contacts

Bug List<bug-cpio@gnu.org> http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-cpio

Project contacts

Maintainers
Developers

Related information

Source repository:pserver:anoncvs@subversions.gnu.org:/cvsroot/cpio login, :pserver:anoncvs@subversions.gnu.org:/cvsroot/cpio co cpio, http://savannah.gnu.org/cvs/?group_id=5700, http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/cpio/cpio
Interfacescommand line
Programscpio, rmt, mt
Source languagesC
Build prerequisiteslibc6
Related programsGNU tar

Entry information

License verified byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2001-01-31
Entry compiled bySergey Poznyakoff <gray@gnu.org>

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