Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!itkin From: itkin@cup.portal.com Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: How can I read a cpio archive with absolute pathnames? Message-ID: <5232@cup.portal.com> Date: 8 May 88 20:43:29 GMT References: <407@vsi.UUCP> <4019@cup.portal.com> <434@vsi.UUCP> <4400@b-tech.UUCP> Organization: The Portal System (TM) Lines: 18 XPortal-User-Id: 1.1001.3249 >In article <434@vsi.UUCP> friedl@vsi.UUCP (Stephen J. Friedl) writes: >>In article <4019@cup.portal.com>, itkin@cup.portal.com writes: >>> In article <407@vsi.UUCP>, I lament: >>> > Customers are always dumping cpio archives to floppy with >>> > >>> > find / -print | cpio ... >>> > >>> >and it drives us crazy when we need to restore something and they > >There is a comp.sources program called fixcpio that fixes damaged cpio >archives (it's great for skipping over that one bad spot in a set of >floppy backups). It could be easily modified to remove a leading / >from files names. >-- >Jon Zeeff Branch Technology, How about keeping it simple? Use 'chroot' to specify a new root directory relative to something you like and then move/rename the file once it's there.