only files in the archive with matching names are copied from the archive. The following example extracts the file /etc/fstab from the archive:$ cpio -i -d /etc/fstab < archive.cpio

List

The files contained in a cpio archive may be listed with this invocation:$ cpio -t < archive.cpioList may be useful since a cpio archive may contain absolute rather than relative paths (e.g., /bin/ls vs. bin/ls).

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