About:
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.

Author:
GNU Project <gnu __at__ gnu __dot__ org> [contact developer]

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Homepage:
http://www.gnu.org/software/cpio/
Tar/GZ:
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/cpio/
CVS tree (cvsweb):
http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/cpio/
Mailing list archive:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-cpio/

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		5 - Production/Stable
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Topic]		System :: Archiving :: Backup

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Stable	2.6	07-Nov-2005	GNU General Public License (GPL)

 Articles referencing this project

• Debian: New cpio packages fix denial of service
  by Patrick Lenz , in Security
  Mon, May 5th 2008 03:44
  
• Red Hat: An updated cpio package fixes a security issue
  by Patrick Lenz , in Security
  Mon, May 7th 2007 07:53
  
• Red Hat: Updated cpio package fixes multiple issues
  by Patrick Lenz , in Security
  Thu, Jul 21st 2005 12:31
  
• Red Hat: New cpio packages fix security issue
  by Patrick Lenz , in Security
  Fri, Feb 18th 2005 07:46
  
• Debian: New cpio packages fix insecure file permissions
  by Patrick Lenz , in Security
  Wed, Feb 2nd 2005 10:57