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NAME

     paxcpio — copy file archives in and out

SYNOPSIS

     paxcpio -o [-AaBcJjLVvZz] [-C bytes] [-F archive] [-H format] [-M flag] [-O archive] <
             name-list [> archive]
     paxcpio -i [-6BbcdfJjmrSstuVvZz] [-C bytes] [-E file] [-F archive] [-H format] [-I archive]
             [-M flag] [pattern ...] [< archive]
     paxcpio -p [-adLlmuVv] destination-directory < name-list

DESCRIPTION

     The paxcpio command copies files to and from a cpio archive.

     The options are as follows:

     -o      Create an archive.  Reads the list of files to store in the archive from standard
             input, and writes the archive on standard output.

             -A      Append to the specified archive.

             -a      Reset the access times on files that have been copied to the archive.

             -B      Set block size of output to 5120 bytes.

             -C bytes
                     Set the block size of output to bytes.

             -c      Use ASCII format for cpio header for portability.

             -F archive
                     Use the specified file as the input for the archive.

             -H format
                     Write the archive in the specified format.  Recognised formats are:

                     ar       Unix Archiver.
                     bcpio    Old binary cpio format.  Selected by -6.
                     cpio     Old octal character cpio format.  Selected by -c.
                     sv4cpio  SVR4 hex cpio format.
                     sv4crc   SVR4 hex cpio format with checksums.  This is the default format
                              for creating new archives.
                     tar      Old tar format.
                     ustar    POSIX ustar format.

                     bin      These four formats...
                     crc      ...are supported...
                     newc     ...for backwards...
                     odc      ...compatibility only.

             -J      Use the xz utility to compress the archive.

             -j      Use the bzip2 utility to compress the archive.

             -L      Follow symbolic links.

             -M flag
                     Configure the archive normaliser.  flag is either a numeric value compatible
                     to strtonum(3) which is directly stored in the flags word, or one of the
                     following values, optionally prefixed with “no-” to turn them off:

                     inodes  0x0001: Serialise inodes, zero device info.
                             (cpio, sv4cpio, sv4crc)
                     links   0x0002: Store content of hard links only once.
                             (cpio, sv4cpio, sv4crc)
                     mtime   0x0004: Zero out the file modification time.
                             (ar, cpio, sv4cpio, sv4crc, ustar)
                     uidgid  0x0008: Set owner to 0:0 (root:wheel).
                             (ar, cpio, sv4cpio, sv4crc, ustar)
                     verb    0x0010: Debug this option.
                     debug   0x0020: Debug file header storage.
                     lncp    0x0040: Extract hard links by copy if link fails.
                     numid   0x0080: Use only numeric uid and gid values.
                             (ustar)
                     gslash  0x0100: Append a slash after directory names.
                             (ustar)
                     set     0x0003: Keep ownership and mtime intact.
                     dist    0x008B: Clean everything except mtime.
                     norm    0x008F: Clean everything.
                     root    0x0089: Clean owner and device information.

                     This option is only implemented for the ar, cpio, sv4cpio, sv4crc, and ustar
                     file format writing routines.

             -O archive
                     Use the specified file name as the archive to write to.

             -V      Print a dot (‘.’) for each file written to the archive.

             -v      Be verbose about operations.  List filenames as they are written to the
                     archive.

             -Z      Use the compress(1) utility to compress the archive.

             -z      Use the gzip(1) utility to compress the archive.

     -i      Restore files from an archive.  Reads the archive file from standard input and
             extracts files matching the patterns that were specified on the command line.

             -6      Process old-style cpio format archives.

             -B      Set the block size of the archive being read to 5120 bytes.

             -b      Do byte and word swapping after reading in data from the archive, for
                     restoring archives created on systems with a different byte order.

             -C bytes
                     Read archive written with a block size of bytes.

             -c      Expect the archive headers to be in ASCII format.

             -d      Create any intermediate directories as needed during restore.

             -E file
                     Read list of file name patterns to extract or list from file.

             -F archive, -I archive
                     Use the specified file as the input for the archive.

             -f      Restore all files except those matching the patterns given on the command
                     line.

             -H format
                     Read an archive of the specified format.  Recognised formats are:

                     ar       Unix Archiver.
                     bcpio    Old binary cpio format.
                     cpio     Old octal character cpio format.
                     sv4cpio  SVR4 hex cpio format.
                     sv4crc   SVR4 hex cpio format with checksums.
                     tar      Old tar format.
                     ustar    POSIX ustar format.

                     bin      These four formats...
                     crc      ...are supported...
                     newc     ...for backwards...
                     odc      ...compatibility only.

             -J      Use the xz utility to decompress the archive.

             -j      Use the bzip2 utility to decompress the archive.

             -m      Restore modification times on files.

             -r      Rename restored files interactively.

             -S      Swap words after reading data from the archive.

             -s      Swap bytes after reading data from the archive.

             -t      Only list the contents of the archive, no files or directories will be
                     created.

             -u      Overwrite files even when the file in the archive is older than the one that
                     will be overwritten.

             -V      Print a dot (‘.’) for each file read from the archive.

             -v      Be verbose about operations.  List filenames as they are copied in from the
                     archive.

             -Z      Use the compress(1) utility to decompress the archive.

             -z      Use the gzip(1) utility to decompress the archive.

     -p      Copy files from one location to another in a single pass.  The list of files to copy
             are read from standard input and written out to a directory relative to the
             specified directory argument.

             -a      Reset the access times on files that have been copied.

             -d      Create any intermediate directories as needed to write the files at the new
                     location.

             -L      Follow symbolic links.

             -l      When possible, link files rather than creating an extra copy.

             -m      Restore modification times on files.

             -u      Overwrite files even when the original file being copied is older than the
                     one that will be overwritten.

             -V      Print a dot (‘.’) for each file copied.

             -v      Be verbose about operations.  List filenames as they are copied.

ENVIRONMENT

     TMPDIR      Path in which to store temporary files.

EXIT STATUS

     The paxcpio utility exits with one of the following values:

           0       All files were processed successfully.
           1       An error occurred.

DIAGNOSTICS

     Whenever paxcpio cannot create a file or a link when extracting an archive or cannot find a
     file while writing an archive, or cannot preserve the user ID, group ID, file mode, or
     access and modification times when the -p option is specified, a diagnostic message is
     written to standard error and a non-zero exit value will be returned, but processing will
     continue.  In the case where paxcpio cannot create a link to a file, unless -M lncp is
     given, paxcpio will not create a second copy of the file.

     If the extraction of a file from an archive is prematurely terminated by a signal or error,
     paxcpio may have only partially extracted the file the user wanted.  Additionally, the file
     modes of extracted files and directories may have incorrect file bits, and the modification
     and access times may be wrong.

     If the creation of an archive is prematurely terminated by a signal or error, paxcpio may
     have only partially created the archive, which may violate the specific archive format
     specification.

SEE ALSO

     ar(1), cpio(1), deb(5), pax(1), paxtar(1), tar(1)

AUTHORS

     Keith Muller at the University of California, San Diego.

     MirOS extensions by Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.org>.

CAVEATS

     Different file formats have different maximum file sizes.  It is recommended that a format
     such as cpio or ustar be used for larger files.

           File format    Maximum file size
           ar             10 Gigabytes - 1 Byte
           bcpio          4 Gibibytes
           sv4cpio        4 Gibibytes
           cpio           8 Gibibytes
           tar            8 Gibibytes
           ustar          8 Gibibytes

     The backwards-compatible format options are not available in the pax(1) front-end.

     The -M option is a MirBSD extension, available starting with MirOS 8.  Archives written
     using these options are, however, compatible to the standard and should be readable on any
     other system.  The only option whose behaviour is not explicitly allowed by the standard is
     hard link unification (write file contens only once) selected by -M 0x0002.

     The -V option is a GNU extension, available starting with MirOS 11.

     The ar file format matches APT repositories and the BSD ar(1) specification, not GNU
     binutils (which can however read them) or SYSV systems.

BUGS

     The -s and -S options are currently not implemented.

     The pax file format is not yet supported.