Re: Prob using CPIO

2024-01-01 Thread xuser
Well yes '> tree.cpio' should be '> ../tree.cpio' xu...@sdf.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.org On Mon, 1 Jan 2024, Michael van Elst wrote: tgru...@gmail.com (Todd Gruhn) writes: I zip up much music: find . -depth -print | cpio -ov > file.cpio To unzip it , I must

Re: Prob using CPIO

2024-01-01 Thread Michael van Elst
tgru...@gmail.com (Todd Gruhn) writes: >I zip up much music: > find . -depth -print | cpio -ov > file.cpio >To unzip it , I must undo *cpio severa times severa times: > cpio -iv < file.cpio Your 'zip' packs the local directory including the cpio file that is being created. You don't have

Re: Prob using CPIO

2024-01-01 Thread xuser
Should be like this: find . -print -depth | cpio -ov > tree.cpio # to make the cpio And like this to extract: cpio -idv < tree.cpio xu...@sdf.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.org On Mon, 1 Jan 2024, Todd Gruhn wrote: I zip up much music: find . -depth -print | cpio -ov >

Prob using CPIO

2024-01-01 Thread Todd Gruhn
I zip up much music: find . -depth -print | cpio -ov > file.cpio To unzip it , I must undo *cpio severa times severa times: cpio -iv < file.cpio Am I messing this up somehow? The *.cpio file is about 250MB...