hi suhas

use

cpio -itvd < xyz.cpio

to extract file from cpio ....

if u want the list of the files also extracted use

cpio -itvd < xyz.cpio > xyz.lst

Regards Narayan Kejriwal SoftwareWorkshop.Net --- suhas prabhu suhasprbu@yahoo.co.in wrote:

Hello Friends,

I use Red Hat Linux 9.

I have 3 CDs of a certain application for linux. All the CDs contain only one file with the extension ..cpio.gz

I unzipped it using gzip but how to extract files from .cpio format. I read the man page for CPIO but could not understand it.

Each compressed file on CD is about 640 MB in cpio format.

Please Help.

Thanks in advance,

Suhas

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