`-v, --verbose'
     List the files processed, or with `-t', give an `ls -l' style
     table of contents listing.

Yes, but it would be nice to be able to get an ls -l listing at the
same time as extracting, so one wouldn't need a second pass, spinning
up drives again. E.g., -idvvm could do this vs. -idvm

And say where -v output goes, stderr or stdout, -t too.

And --no-absolute-filenames seems to turn off error reporting without
increasing file extraction:

$ e=/var/tmp/etc_bkp2004-10-05-07-58-26
03:10 tmp$ cpio -idvm /etc/init.d/xprint < $e |wc
cpio: /etc/init.d/xprint not created: newer or same age version exists
/etc/init.d/xprint
643 blocks
      0       0       0
03:11 tmp$ cpio -idvm --no-absolute-filenames /etc/init.d/xprint  < $e
|wc
643 blocks
      0       0       0
03:13 tmp$ cpio -idvm --no-absolute-filenames /etc/init.d/xprint  < $e 
643 blocks
03:14 tmp$ ls
addresses          gconfd-jidanni  nmfile2.html   p
ssh-gvHZZl3847
esrv1000-jidanni1  memos           orbit-jidanni  ssh-aUbkrE3847
03:14 tmp$ cpio -idvm  /etc/init.d/xprint  < $e 
cpio: /etc/init.d/xprint not created: newer or same age version exists
/etc/init.d/xprint
643 blocks


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