cpio

GNU cpio is a tool for creating and extracting archives, or copying files from one place to another. It handles a number of cpio formats as well as reading and writing tar files. This is the first edition of the GNU cpio documentation and is consistant with GNU cpio 2.5.

1. Introduction
2. Tutorial		Getting started.
3. Invoking cpio		How to invoke `cpio'.
4. Magnetic Media		Using tapes and other archive media.
Concept Index		Concept index.

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Invoking cpio

3.1 Copy-out mode
3.2 Copy-in mode
3.3 Copy-pass mode
3.4 Options