[tech] tar vs cpio vs ...
David Luyer
david_luyer at pacific.net.au
Sat Aug 31 04:14:09 WST 2002
Ah, now you reminded me why 'cpio' breaks (without print0/-o0 it doesn't
handle newlines in filenames). That was why I sometimes used pax with
cpio format to archive and then cpio to extract.
David.
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