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1 GNU CPIO
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1 This manual documents GNU cpio (version 2.12, 30 September 2021).
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1    Copyright (C) 1995, 2001-2002, 2004, 2010, 2014-2015 Free Software
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1    GNU cpio is a tool for creating and extracting archives, or copying
1 files from one place to another.  It handles a number of cpio formats as
1 well as reading and writing tar files.  This is the first edition of the
1 GNU cpio documentation and is consistent with 2.12.
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Menu

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· Introduction
· Tutorial                    Getting started.
· Invoking cpio               How to invoke 'cpio'.
· Media                       Using tapes and other archive media.
· Reports                     Reporting bugs or suggestions
· Concept Index               Concept index.
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1  -- The Detailed Node Listing --
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1 Invoking cpio
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· Copy-out mode
· Copy-in mode
· Copy-pass mode
· Options
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