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Commands using cpio

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find . -type f -name '*.sh' -print | cpio -o | gzip >sh.cpio.gz
2011-12-21 21:13:29
User: djangofan
Functions: cpio find gzip
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CPIO better than TAR

Archive all .sh files in a directory into a gzip archive.

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find . -iname "*.flac" | cpio -pdm /Volumes/Music/FLAC
2011-08-02 08:25:21
User: sammcj
Functions: cpio find
Tags: find copy cpio recursive recursive directory find copy
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Find all files of a type and copy them elsewhere while keeping intact their full directory structure using find and cpio

.flac is the filetype.

/Volumes/Music/FLAC is the destination.

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ram() { for i in /tmp /altroot;do mount -t tmpfs tmpfs $i;done&& for i in /var /root /etc $HOME; do find -d $i |cpio -pdmv /tmp&& mount -t tmpfs tmpfs $i&& mv -v /tmp$i/* $i&& rm -vrf /tmp$i ; done ;} usage: (in rc sequence) ram
2010-08-31 08:25:55
User: argv
Functions: cpio find mount mv rm
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preserve disk; keep OS clean

if you use disk-based swap then it can defeat the purpose of this function.

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rpm2cpio package.rpm |cpio -dimv
2010-07-29 11:37:30
User: vlan7
Functions: cpio
Tags: rpm
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Extract all of the files on an RPM on a non-RPM *nix
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find . -path ./mnt -prune -o -path ./lost+found -prune -o -path ./sys -prune -o -path ./proc -prune -o -print | cpio -pumd /destination && mkdir /destination/mnt/ && mkdir /destination/proc && mkdir /destination/sys
2009-04-28 22:14:45
User: nutria
Functions: cpio find mkdir
Tags: find cpio
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Clone /

Clone linux installation.

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find . | cpio -pumdv /destination
2009-04-28 22:08:30
User: nutria
Functions: cpio find
Tags: find cpio
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Clone current directory into /destination verbosely

Copy every file from current directory to destination preserving modification time.

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rpm2cpio /path/to/file.rpm | cpio -i -d
2009-03-10 21:02:14
User: atoponce
Functions: cpio
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Extract the contents of an RPM package to your current directory without installing them.

This assumes you have the 'rpm', 'rpm2cpio' and 'cpio' packages installed. This will extract the contents of the RPM package to your current directory. This is useful for working with the files that the package provides without installing the package on your system. Might be useful to create a temporary directory to hold the packages before running the extraction:

mkdir /tmp/new-package/; cd /tmp/new-package
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find / -xdev -print | cpio -pdmuv /mnt/mydisk
2009-02-24 02:03:43
User: afink
Functions: cpio find
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1:1 copy of a volume

copies all files from the source disk / (skipping boundaries of mouted -in volumes) to /mnt/mydisk. Logical links are being preserved as well as devices, pipes etc. This can copy a MacOS X or Linux volume and keep it bootable. Note: its not suited to copy files with MacOS 9 style resources.

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find ./source -depth -print | cpio -cvo> /destination/source_data.cpio; cd /destination; cpio -icvmdI ./source_data.cpio; rm -rf ./source_data.cpio
2009-02-07 18:51:49
User: mnikhil
Functions: cd cpio find rm
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copying data with cpio

Copy data to the destination using commands such as cpio (recommended), tar, rsync, ufsdump, or ufsrestore.

Example:

Let the source directory be /source, and let the destination directory be /destination.

# cd /source

# cd ..

# find ./source -depth -print | cpio -cvo> /destination/source_data.cpio

# cd /destination

# cpio -icvmdI ./source_data.cpio

# rm -rf ./source_data.cpio

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