Cpio

GNU cpio copies files into or out of a cpio or tar archive. The archive can be another file on the disk, a magnetic tape, or a pipe.

GNU cpio supports the following archive formats: binary, old ASCII, new ASCII, crc, HPUX binary, HPUX old ASCII, old tar, and POSIX.1 tar. The tar format is provided for compatability with the tar program. By default, cpio creates binary format archives, for compatibility with older cpio programs. 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.

Downloading Cpio

GNU cpio can be found on http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/cpio/ or one of the mirrors.

Alpha releases of the development version can be downloaded from alpha.gnu.org.

The project's homepage at Savannah is the place to look for the latest news and patches for the project.