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   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 2.4.

Introduction

Tutorial

Getting started.

Invoking `cpio'

How to invoke `cpio'.

Media

Using tapes and other archive media.

Concept Index

Concept index.

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Invoking cpio

Copy-out mode

Copy-in mode

Copy-pass mode

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