Cpio

File Format
Name	Cpio
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Archiving Cpio
Extension(s)	.cpio
MIME Type(s)	application/x-cpio

cpio is a non-compressed file archive format for Unix-style systems. It was originally intended for tape archiving, similar to the Tape Archive (tar) format.

Format documentation

• Format information

Software

• GNU cpio
• libarchive / bsdcpio
• cpio for Windows
• 7-Zip

Other links

• Wikipedia article
• Man page
• tar vs. cpio