In copy-in mode, cpio copies files out of an archive or lists the archive contents. It reads the archive from the standard input. If no patterns are given, all files are extracted. See section Options . See section Options .
GNU find is one way to produce a list of null-terminated filenames.
Append to an existing archive. Only works in copy-out mode. Initially the block size is 512 bytes. The lines of FILE are treated as if they had been non-option arguments to cpio. Also recognizes GNU tar archives, which are similar but not identical.