On Wednesday 06 December 2006 12:35, Carlos E. R. wrote: > The Wednesday 2006-12-06 at 11:29 -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: > > ... > > > 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
