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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
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Werner Almesberger wrote:

>Rob Landley wrote:
>  
>
>>Yeah, cpio is a pain and change to use, but so is tar.
>>    
>>
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>Somebody who strogly dislikes cpio could just write wrapper accepting
>tar-style options. Or add a --cpio option to GNU tar, that switches
>to using the cpio format. One could even try to auto-detect the
>format when reading :-)
>
>- Werner (hates cpio, but not enough)
>  
>


Well, FWIW, "pax" deprecates both cpio and tar.

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/utilities/pax.html

In theory pax turns cpio and tar into shell scripts.

    Jeff




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