program.

The resulting cpio archive is a sequence of files and directories concatenated into a single archive, separated by header sections with file meta information, such as filename, inode number, ownership, permissions, and timestamps. By convention, the file name of an archive is usually given the file extension cpio.

This example uses the find utility to generate a list of path names starting in the current directory to create an archive of the directory tree:$ find . -depth -print | cpio -o > /path/archive.cpio

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