Greg,are you talking about this : find . -depth -type f | cpio --create --format='newc' > ../../initrd.img-5.10.0-18-amd64
or this : find . -depth | cpio --create --format='newc' > ../../initrd.img-5.10.0-18-amd64 or are they equivalent ? Thanks. Il giorno ven 28 ott 2022 alle ore 16:49 Greg Wooledge <[email protected]> ha scritto: > On Fri, Oct 28, 2022 at 09:32:00AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > > On 28/10/2022 07:07, Mario Marietto wrote: > > > > > > find . | cpio --create > > I rarely use cpio, but recently there was a thread on tar and unwanted > hard > > links in the created archive. "find" output mixes regular files and > > directories. If the archiver recursively walks through received > directories > > then result may differ from expectations. > > cpio was actually *designed* to be used this way, unlike tar. > > There's no issue with the snippet quoted above. Of course, this cpio > command is incomplete (it needs a redirection to an archive file or > something), but the part that's shown is fine. > > unicorn:~$ mkdir /tmp/x && cd "$_" > unicorn:/tmp/x$ mkdir dir; touch dir/file{1,2} > unicorn:/tmp/x$ find . | cpio --create | cpio -ivt > 1 block > drwxr-xr-x 3 greg greg 0 Oct 28 10:46 . > drwxr-xr-x 2 greg greg 0 Oct 28 10:46 dir > -rw-r--r-- 1 greg greg 0 Oct 28 10:46 dir/file2 > -rw-r--r-- 1 greg greg 0 Oct 28 10:46 dir/file1 > 1 block > > See? No duplicates. Unlike GNU tar, which recurses into the directory > in addition to receiving the already-recursed files from find: > > unicorn:/tmp/x$ find . | tar -cf - --files-from=- | tar tvf - > drwxr-xr-x greg/greg 0 2022-10-28 10:46 ./ > drwxr-xr-x greg/greg 0 2022-10-28 10:46 ./dir/ > -rw-r--r-- greg/greg 0 2022-10-28 10:46 ./dir/file2 > -rw-r--r-- greg/greg 0 2022-10-28 10:46 ./dir/file1 > drwxr-xr-x greg/greg 0 2022-10-28 10:46 ./dir/ > hrw-r--r-- greg/greg 0 2022-10-28 10:46 ./dir/file2 link to > ./dir/file2 > hrw-r--r-- greg/greg 0 2022-10-28 10:46 ./dir/file1 link to > ./dir/file1 > hrw-r--r-- greg/greg 0 2022-10-28 10:46 ./dir/file2 link to > ./dir/file2 > hrw-r--r-- greg/greg 0 2022-10-28 10:46 ./dir/file1 link to > ./dir/file1 > > -- Mario.
