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Hadris CPIO CLI

Command-line utility for CPIO archive operations.

Installation

cargo install hadris-cpio-cli

Or build from source:

cargo build --release -p hadris-cpio-cli

The binary will be available as cpioutil.

Usage

# List archive contents
cpioutil list archive.cpio
cpioutil list -l archive.cpio

# Display archive information
cpioutil info archive.cpio

# Create an archive from a directory
cpioutil create -o archive.cpio ./my-directory
cpioutil create -o archive.cpio --crc ./my-directory

# Extract an archive
cpioutil extract -o ./output archive.cpio

# Print a file from the archive
cpioutil cat archive.cpio path/to/file.txt

Commands

Command	Description
`list`	List archive entries (like `cpio -t`)
`info`	Display archive format, entry count, and per-entry metadata
`create`	Create a CPIO archive from a directory
`extract`	Extract an archive to a directory
`cat`	Print a single file's contents to stdout

`list`

Lists all entries in the archive, one per line.

$ cpioutil list archive.cpio
hello.txt
subdir
subdir/nested.txt

$ cpioutil list -l archive.cpio
-rw-r--r--   501     0       12 1700000000 hello.txt
drwxr-xr-x   501     0        0 1700000000 subdir
-rw-r--r--   501     0       12 1700000000 subdir/nested.txt

`info`

Shows archive-level summary and detailed per-entry metadata.

$ cpioutil info archive.cpio
CPIO Archive Information
========================
Format:       newc (070701)
Entries:      3
Total data:   24 B (24 bytes)

Entry Details
-------------
  -rw-r--r-- hello.txt
    ino=1 nlink=1 uid=501 gid=0 size=12 mtime=1700000000
    dev=0,0 rdev=0,0 check=0x00000000
  ...

`create`

Packs a directory into a CPIO archive. Use --crc for the 070702 format.

$ cpioutil create -o archive.cpio ./my-directory
Created newc archive: archive.cpio

$ cpioutil create -o archive.cpio --crc ./my-directory
Created newc+crc archive: archive.cpio

`extract`

Extracts files, directories, and symlinks. Device nodes and FIFOs are skipped with a warning.

$ cpioutil extract -o ./output archive.cpio
Extracted 3 entries to ./output

`cat`

Prints a single file's contents to stdout, useful for quick inspection.

$ cpioutil cat archive.cpio hello.txt
Hello, world!

Interoperability

Archives created by cpioutil are readable by system cpio:

cpio -t < archive.cpio

Archives created by system cpio -H newc are readable by cpioutil:

find . -depth -print | cpio -o -H newc > archive.cpio
cpioutil list -l archive.cpio

License

Licensed under the MIT license.

hadris-cpio-cli 1.0.0