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TAR vs CPIO, what is the difference?
I am curious and did a bit of reading but still have questions.
What makes CPIO different than TAR? I was told in another question that tar is for pulling together many files into 1 archive which ...
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extract a few members from tar archive and pipe through network
edit: I want to extra member01 and member02 and directory blah/
tarball_1.tar.gz contains directory test/ with 20 files. I want to extract only member test/member01 and test/member02 and directory ...
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Copy file in GNU/Linux with progress bar and rate limiting
Is there any good tool in GNU/Linux that copy files like cp, but also shows progress and limits speed (and changes limit without interruption) like pv?
Prototype:
find source_directory | cpio -H ...
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Why does cpio say “WARNING! These file names were not selected” when copying a large number of files?
For over 10 years, I've been using this strategy to copy a large number of files between UNIX filesystems:
cd source_directory
find . -depth -print | cpio -pdm /path/to/destination_directory
It ...
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cpio basic extract command, 'tar xzvf' equivalent?
I've received a Unix software distribution as a compressed cpio file. What's the best command to extract the files?
