How to create and extract cpio archives on Linux Examples

Posted by linuxer on Nov 29, 2021 1:12 AM EDT
LinuxConfig.org; By Egidio Docile
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Although the cpio archiving utility is nowadays used less than other archiving tools like tar, it is still good to know how it works, since it is still used, for example, to create initramfs images on Linux and for rpm packages, which are used mainly in the Red Hat family of distributions. In this tutorial we see how to create and extract cpio archives using the GNU cpio utility, and how to obtain a list of the files they contain.

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