On Wednesday 06 December 2006 12:35, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Wednesday 2006-12-06 at 11:29 -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote:
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CPIO is definitely a horse of a different color in the Unix archive tool world. Apart from the fact that it is the basis of the RPM format, it's really an archaic standard, having been supplanted by TAR in the large majority of uses.
I read once that the cpio archive is more solid.
If the tar.gz archive is broken, all of it is broken. The backup program that claimed this explained that instead they used cpio, compressing each file separately: thus only one file would be irretrievable, not the whole archive.
But the tradeoff with per-file compression is that you typically get rather poor compression for archives that contain many small files.
Naturally, "cpio --help" and "man cpio" will give you the information you need.
I tried - info cpio, actually, man is almost empty - and I almost run away. It is difficult to understand, and it has no examples.
I wish I could make "info" go away. I hate it. In addition to the atrocious tools used to access it, having the information I seek as fragmented as it is in the typical set of info pages is a disagreeable experience. Just try to figure out how to do something non-trivial with "sed" based on its info pages. You'll be pulling your hair out soon enough.
I didn't realize the redirection was needed.
As I said, it's a horse of a different color. RRS --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org