Re: Pulling off of *.cpio

[Todd Gruhn <tgruhn2%gmail.com@localhost>]

I found amd fixed

You wont believe -- I wan not in the /etc/group.
I was not  " guest:*: ' and not in " users:*: " .

WOW!  Shouldn't this work  if I was ROOT  ?

On Mon, Feb 6, 2023 at 3:15 PM <ignatios%cs.uni-bonn.de@localhost> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Feb 06, 2023 at 08:56:39AM -0500, Todd Gruhn wrote:
>
> > For one, MP3 does not compress well -- so does it matter it comes off
> > when I do cpio -iv < foo ??
> >
> > Why do I need to unzip it 2x?? I see the list if file names when I unzip them.
>
> What do you mean by "unzip it 2x"? All you showed above, *again*, was
> the normal cpio extraction command.
>
> cpio can create an archive including compress-like (-Z) or gzip-like (-z)
> compression - read the manual page, please.
>
> On extracting, it automatically recognizes those formats and
> uncompresses them on-the-fly using the right algorithm. You never
> need to call unzip, not even once, especially not twice...
>
> (and it wouldn't help, as the format of zip/unzip is different:
> $ unzip testz.cpio
> unzip: Unrecognized archive format
> $ unzip testZ.zpio
> unzip: Failed to open 'testZ.zpio'
> )
>
> I guess you created the archive with one of cpio's compression options?
>
> You'll still achieve a bit of compression on top of the audio compression
> by mp3, at least with -z (small z), 1% in a quick experiment. -Z, indeed,
> increased the size - you probably should avoid that. But if you insist,
> you can create a cpio archive without its own compression by using plain
> cpio -o (without -z or -Z).
>
> Regards,
>         -is