Practice

The given example describes the copying of files using cpio.

#cd /home

# ls tes*|cpio -ovc >/dev/fd0

test test1 test2 test3

2 blocks

In the given example, files were copied under the directory known as /home/test through using cpio command.  The o represents (copy out) Reads a list of pathnames from the standard input and copies that files onto the standard output together with pathname and status information. The result is padded to a 512- byte boundary by default. Here v means list the files processed or within -t, give an 'ls, l displays style table of contents listing and c means for portability, write header data in ASCII Character form. Always use this option whenever the origin and destination machines are of various types >/dev/fd0-Output is redirected to a floppy disk in the first drive.