First lose the dot in the destination directory name and use the command in the manner described in man cpio plus an nfs-specific parameter:
I have never heard of cpio asking about deleting source files.
Make sure that you don't have either a script or alias which clashes with the commands:
Well the dot in the destination wasn't originally there, and it doesn't seem to make a difference. I've since tried tests with and without it, and can't replicate the problem.
Neither cpio or find have any other scripts clashing with them, the type command finds them both in /usr/bin.
The tests I'm currently running are also over NFS, and I can't replicate the problem, no matter how I type the command. Is it possible that a file in the source dir caused it?
Hi,
Currently a backup script copies compressed files to tape using cpio command (on AIX 5.2). Recently we've had a compressed file which has gone over 2 GB in size resulting in an error while copying this file onto the tape using cpio.
Any suggestions on relevant workarounds would be much... (0 Replies)
Hi,
Currently a backup script copies compressed files to tape using cpio command (on AIX 5.2). Recently we've had a compressed file which has gone over 2 GB in size resulting in an error while copying this file onto the tape using cpio.
Any suggestions on relevant workarounds would be much... (2 Replies)
Hi all,
I want to unpack some files .Files and their sizes are:
1. Linux9i_Disk1.cpio -- 500m
2. Linux9i_Disk2.cpio--- 600m
3.Linux9i_Disk3.cpio---- 250m
I used cpio -idmv Linux9i_Disk1.cpio command to unpack the files. But Its taking more time to unpack the files.What could be the... (2 Replies)
Hi Friends,
I am new to this , I am working on AIX system and my scenario is to retrive the files from remote system and remove the files from the remote system after retreving files. I can able to retrieve the files but Can't remove files in remote system. Please check my code and help me out... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I am new to shell scripting.Please help me on this.I am using solaris 10 OS and shell i am using is
# echo $0
-sh
My requirement is i have source file say makefile.I need to extract files with extensions (.c |.cxx |.h |.hxx |.sc) from the makefile.after doing so i need to check whether... (13 Replies)
#!/bin/bash
#
name=$1
type=$2
number=1
for file in ./**
do
if
then
filenumber=00$number
elif
then
filenumber=0$number
fi
tempname="$name""$filenumber"."$type"
if (4 Replies)
I need a hint for reading manpage (I did rtfm really) of cpio to do this task as in the headline described. I want to put all files of a certain type, lets say all *.txt files or any other format. Spread in more than hundreds of subdirectories in one directory I would like to select them and just... (3 Replies)
Due to budget constraints I have to reinvent an Enterprise backup system in a SPARC (sun4v) Solaris estate (10 & 11). (yep - reinvent wheel, fun but time consuming. Is this wise?! :confused: )
For each filesystem of interest, to try to capture a 'catalog' at the front of each cpio archive (for... (1 Reply)
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LEARN ABOUT OSX
rpm2cpio
rpm2cpio(1) User Commands rpm2cpio(1)NAME
rpm2cpio - convert Red Hat Package (RPM) to cpio archive
SYNOPSIS
rpm2cpio [file.rpm]
DESCRIPTION
The rpm2cpio utility converts the .rpm file specified as its sole argument to a cpio archive on standard output. (See NOTES.) If no argu-
ment is given, an rpm stream is read from standard input. In both cases, rpm2cpio will fail and print a usage message if the standard out-
put is a terminal. Therefore, the output is usually redirected to a file or piped through the cpio(1) utility.
EXAMPLES
Example 1: Converting an rpm file
example% rpm2cpio Device3Dfx-1.1-2.src.rpm | cpio -itv
CPIO archive found!
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2635 Sep 13 16:39 1998, 3dfx.gif
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11339 Sep 27 16:03 1998, Dev3Dfx.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1387 Sep 27 16:04 1998, Device3Dfx-1.1-2.spec
31 blocks
Example 2: Converting from standard input
example% rpm2cpio < Device3Dfx-1.1-2.src.rpm | cpio -itv
CPIO archive found!
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2635 Sep 13 16:39 1998, 3dfx.gif
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11339 Sep 27 16:03 1998, Dev3Dfx.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1387 Sep 27 16:04 1998, Device3Dfx-1.1-2.spec
31 blocks
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWrpm |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO cpio(1), attributes(5)NOTES
rpm2cpio handles versions 3 and 4 RPMs.
SunOS 5.10 20 Aug 2001 rpm2cpio(1)