can append files and diretory using CPIO

[Joon]

Does anybody knows how to append files and directory using cpio?
please let me know showing examle.

thanks in adavance.

[T G Manikandan]

cpio does not support this feature.

Only tar & pax support this.

[Vijaya Kumar_3]

i think you can just tweak it....Do extract cpio to a temporary directory like /tmp/cpiotmp

then do a "cp -i" or "mv -i" to append.

You can even write a small script too.

-Vijay

[Sanjay_6]

Hi,

cpio does not support append mode.

Take a look at this thread,

http://www1.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docLocale=en_US&docId=200000007949999

This same comparison is there in the sys admin manual too.

The doc id is CJW9304231450


Hope this helps.

Regds

[T G Manikandan]

Looks like the GNU version of cpio can work the way.

http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Gnu/cpio-2.5/


check for the -A option.