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Extracting CPIO archive

RedTurbo

04-05-2004, 08:12 AM

Is it possible to extract a file from a CPIO archive to a specific place?

I cannot find a way to do it, I'm using the command:

cpio -id "./Customer Files/ESTIMATE LOG/Estimate.xls" < "/Volumes/Backup/Archive.cpio"

to extract the file Estimate.xls, but it creates the directory structure in the current directory, is there a way to extract just the file 'Estimate.xls' to a specific folder?

tas

04-07-2004, 06:07 AM

Not sure if this will answer your question, but there was a good article about using cpio here: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/11/FreeBSD_Basics.html

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