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- From: andy@scp.caltech.edu (Andy Fyfe)
- Newsgroups: gnu.utils.bug
- Subject: cpio 2.2
- Date: 26 Jan 1993 21:33:38 -0500
- Organization: GNUs Not Usenet
- Lines: 28
- Sender: daemon@cis.ohio-state.edu
- Approved: bug-gnu-utils@prep.ai.mit.edu
- Distribution: gnu
- Message-ID: <9301260243.AA02971@kodiak.cs.caltech.edu>
-
- I found cpio can be used to copy devices, but I found that if a
- device had multiple links, it was not restored as such, but as
- separate files. This is also true for named pipes.
-
- My system is the AT&T 3b1, running system V (about release 2).
- Enclosed is a typescript using names pipes.
-
- Andy Fyfe andy@cs.caltech.edu
-
- marmot !1 $ cd test
- marmot !2 $ ls -li
- total 0
- 3244 prw-r--r-- 2 andy users 0 Jan 25 18:27 copy
- 3244 prw-r--r-- 2 andy users 0 Jan 25 18:27 pipe
- marmot !3 $ ls -li ../test2
- total 0
- marmot !4 $ ls * | cpio --pass --verbose ../test2
- ../test2/copy
- ../test2/pipe
- 0 blocks
- marmot !5 $ ls -li ../test2
- total 0
- 3240 prw-r--r-- 1 andy users 0 Jan 25 18:31 copy
- 3239 prw-r--r-- 1 andy users 0 Jan 25 18:31 pipe
- marmot !6 $ cpio --version
- GNU cpio version 2.2
- marmot !7 $ exit
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