Xref: utzoo comp.sources.d:2248 comp.unix.questions:7461 Path: utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!scs!spl1!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mandrill!gatech!udel!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!cadre!pitt!h From: hoffman@pitt.UUCP (Bob Hoffman) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d,comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: cpio/afio writing directories? Message-ID: <3486@pitt.UUCP> Date: 31 May 88 19:55:34 GMT Article-I.D.: pitt.3486 References: <23@libove.UUCP> Reply-To: hoffman@vax.cs.pittsburgh.edu.UUCP (Bob Hoffman) Followup-To: comp.sources.d Distribution: comp Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science Lines: 24 In article <23@libove.UUCP> root@libove.UUCP (The Super User) writes: >... it seems that cpio/afio, unlike tar, require real file names, >not just directory names... Right. Tar knows how to traverse directories; afio does not. Afio wants a complete path to each file. An excerpt from the afio manual page: With -o, reads pathnames from the standard input and writes an archive. >My question: How do I tell afio/cpio that > >% echo '/x /y /z' | afio -o > >means /x /y /z and all subfiles also? Echo is not what you want. Use this: % find /x /y /z -print | afio -o ---Bob. -- Bob Hoffman, N3CVL {allegra, bellcore, cadre, idis, psuvax1}!pitt!hoffman Pitt Computer Science hoffman@vax.cs.pittsburgh.edu