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Hi I'm new to the forum and looking for some help with cpio archive creation.

I have a bunch of directories that I need to make into a cpio archive.

The problem I'm having is that when I input the commands I get the cpio archive but it creates a duplicate of the archive inside the archive it's created

The command I'm using is

Code:

find . -print -depth | cpio -ov >archive_name

While it creates the archive with the directory structure I need I get a duplicate of archive_name inside the created archive.

I've tried using cpio from inside the directory and also from outside the directory.
When doing it from outside the directory it doesn't create the duplicate archive but creates the folder as the root directory which I don't want.

Any help would be appreciated as I've been trying for hours and know it's something silly I'm over looking

As with another thread on this topic earlier today (Tar command fails), there are two easy ways to do this. Either move the output file out of the directories being archived:

Code:

find . -depth | cpio -ov >../archive_name

or exclude the output file from the list of files being archived:

Code:

find . -depth ! -name archive_name | cpio -ov >archive_name

Thanks

I will give it a go.
I'm very grateful of you taking the time to reply if the question was already asked earlier in the day.

I must admit I didn't really search as I had been banging my head against a wall for a good few hours with it and being a newbie when it comes to these things was rather frustrated.

Many thanks again.
I'm sure I'll be asking lots more questions in the days to come

Note that based on the discussion in the other thread I mentioned, if you use the 2nd approach I suggested in post #2, you may need to create the output file before you start the find to keep find from failing because the directory hierarchy is changing while it is reading it. In other words:

Code:

touch archive_name; find . -depth ! -name archive_name | clio -ov > archive_name

Thanks

I'll bare that in mind. Although the second option seemed to work fine as is.

The problem I'm facing is somewhere along the lines I seem to have missed or been unable to find the trailer file for the first archive.

Its a firmware file that has been decompressed and extracted and revealed 2 cpio archives within it.
The second archive I am yet to look at but I think the trailer file is there for that archive