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Old 04-22-2009
Using cpio with the find command
Hey everyone,

I’ am a newbie to Unix. Learning some of the basic commands.

I did some piping before like who | wc

I wanted to practice some backup features in Unix. I’ am practicing using cpio and place it into a file named backup. I’m not quite sure where I’ am going wrong?

backup > cpio -v | ./find

The command seems to run fine but does not create a file named backup??(backing up my login directory)

Any suggestions?

John
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Old 04-22-2009
Suppose you want to make a copy of the underlying directories and files of /home/dat to /home/backup:

Code:
cd /home/dat
find * -print | cpio -pvdmu /home/backup

For the used options of cpio you can check the man page of cpio.

Regards
 
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