-p pass trough (copy in and out)
-d make dirs
-m preserve modification time
-v verbose
from the man page:
Code:
....cpio copies files
into or out of a cpio or tar archive, which is a file that contains
other files plus information about them, such as their file name,
owner, timestamps, and access permissions. The archive can be another
file on the disk, a magnetic tape, or a pipe.
I am trying to find a way of copying a system DAT tape onto another DAT tape for security reasons. I have tried searching the net for commands but so far I have been unsuccessful. (2 Replies)
Hi UNIX Gurus,
Could please help me out regarding following situation.
I am copying some files from one directory to other directotry using following command.
cp /var/tmp/*date*.gz /var/tmp/user/
Problem:
Once the copy has completed, I need to check whether all the files (including... (3 Replies)
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Hi,
I'm new to Unix and am trying to write a copy command for the following scenario: Copy all .tif files from the src directory to dest directory but exclude the ones under archive directory.
In other words, I'm trying to write the unix cp equivalent of the following ant target:
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Hi All I am writting a script that does a comparison between files in 2 diffectent directories.
To do this I need a command that will list out only the files in a give directory and omit any sub dorectories with that directory. But I am unable to find it.
Please Help.
I tried
ls... (5 Replies)
Hi,
I am newbie to unix scripting, need a help in the doubt i have. It is " when files are copied to a directory using cp command, they are arranged by default according to the file name, is there anyway where the files that are copied be arranged with respect to their size, with using the sort... (5 Replies)
We have a process where we store the database password in a config file like below from where the password is picked up and used in Database Scripts
ID, Password
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LEARN ABOUT HPUX
cpio
cpio(4) Kernel Interfaces Manual cpio(4)NAME
cpio - format of cpio archive
DESCRIPTION
The header structure, when the option of is not used (see cpio(1)), is:
When the option is used, the header information is described by:
Longtime and Longfile are equivalent to and respectively. The contents of each file are recorded together with other items describing the
file. Every instance of contains the constant 070707 (octal). The items through have meanings explained in stat(2). The length of the
null-terminated path name including the null byte, is given by
The last record of the archive always contains the name Directories and the trailer are recorded with equal to zero.
It will not always be the case that and correspond to the results of but the values are always sufficient to tell whether two files in the
archive are linked to each other.
When a device special file is archived by HP-UX (using the option), contains a magic constant which is dependent upon the implementation
doing the writing. flags the device file as an HP-UX 32-bit device specifier, and contains the 32-bit device specifier (see stat(2)). If
the option is not present, special files are not archived or restored. Non-HPUX device special files are never restored.
SEE ALSO cpio(1), find(1), stat(2).
STANDARDS CONFORMANCE cpio(4)