CPIO extract error

ramnath · 03-17-2004, 04:40 AM

can anyone tell me how to use cpio command on multipart files. I had a 600 MB cpio file which was split up into 6 parts with .cpio.aa, .cpio.ab .. extensions. Now i want to extract the contents of these files. I tried using cpio -idvm < xx.cpio.aa but it starts the extraction and stops midway with the error: Premature End of File. Can anyone please guide me how to go about it.

Ps: i also tried using the -c switch and also without it. But same results.

torusJKL · 06-02-2011, 10:01 AM

this should work

Code:

cat xx.cpio.aa xx.cpio.ab xx.cpio.ac  > filename

thebombzen · 06-02-2011, 10:22 AM

Code:

cat xx.cpio.aa xx.cpio.ab <insert your other files here> | cpio -i