Extraction

During the copy-in operation, initiated by the command line flag , cpio reads an archive from its standard input and recreates the archived files in the operating system's file system.$ cpio -i -vd < archive.cpioCommand line flag tells cpio to construct directories as necessary. Flag (verbose) lists file names as they are extracted.

Any remaining command line arguments other than the option flags are shell-like globbing-patterns;

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