Compression with zcat and cpio

hal8000b · 01-01-2009, 05:48 AM

What is the opposite command to compress this archive:

zcat minirt.gz | cpio --extract

The above command expands the archive minirt to the current directory.

However I'd like to know the opposite command to compress all the files in the current directory with cpio and zcat.
Thanks in advance.

jschiwal · 01-01-2009, 06:00 AM

You can use the form "| gzip >filename.cpio.gz" to compress the cpio archive.

Code:

cpio --create < <(ls netfilter-*.ps) | gzip >netfilter.docs.cpio.gz
1007 blocks