bsdcpio

transitional dummy package for moving bsdcpio to libarchive-tools

Install

All systems
curl cmd.cat/bsdcpio.sh
Debian Debian
apt-get install bsdcpio
Ubuntu
apt-get install bsdcpio
Arch Arch Linux
pacman -S bsdcpio
image/svg+xml Kali Linux
apt-get install bsdcpio
CentOS
yum install bsdcpio
Fedora
dnf install bsdcpio
Windows (WSL2)
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install bsdcpio
Raspbian
apt-get install bsdcpio

bsdcpio

transitional dummy package for moving bsdcpio to libarchive-tools

The bsdcpio program is the default system 'cpio' program used on FreeBSD. bsdcpio uses the libarchive library as a backend which does all of the work for reading and writing archives in various formats. This is a transitional package for the migration of the bsdcpio tool to the libarchive-tools package.

libarchive-tools

FreeBSD implementations of 'tar' and 'cpio' and other archive tools

This package contains several command-line tools based on the libarchive library. The bsdtar program is the default system 'tar' program used on FreeBSD. bsdtar uses the libarchive library as a backend which does all of the work for reading and writing archives in various formats. The bsdcpio program is the default system 'cpio' program used on FreeBSD. bsdcpio uses the libarchive library as a backend which does all of the work for reading and writing archives in various formats. The bsdcat program reads archived data from files or from its standard input and uses the libarchive library to decompresses it to its standard output. It may be used for viewing the contents of archives or for passing it to other tools for further processing.

libarchive

Libarchive is a programming library that can create and read

several different streaming archive formats, including most popular tar variants, several cpio formats, and both BSD and GNU ar variants. It can also write shar archives and read ISO9660 CDROM images and ZIP archives.