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by hcfman 759 days ago
It’s funny how tar came out first. Then cpio came out which was a lot better but tar had the momentum and it never lost it. I still find cpio more controllable and use that as a preference.

But cpio existed when I first used Unix in 1982/3
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eichin 759 days ago
and now there's pax (since POSIX looked at both of them and shuddered :-)
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hcfman 759 days ago
My WOW with cpio is pretty elementary. I've never found anything in all my usage to shudder about. Possibly there are smarty pants usages in there that could make you shudder I don't know. But why choose smarty pants if elementary is perfectly satisfactory.
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