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# cpio
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GNU cpio copies files into or out of a cpio or tar archive.
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The archive can be another file on the disk, a magnetic tape, or a pipe.
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GNU cpio supports the following archive formats:
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- binary
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- old ASCII, new ASCII
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- crc
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- HPUX binary, HPUX old ASCII
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- old tar, POSIX.1 tar.
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The tar format is provided for compatability with the tar program.
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By default, cpio creates binary format archives, for compatibility with older cpio programs.
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When extracting from archives, cpio automatically recognizes which kind of archive it is reading and can read archives created on machines with a different byte-order.
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