There are some kb of difference between the files produced by the two techniques :
79.3 MiB (83,106,001 byte) : find . -print -depth | cpio --create --format='newc' > ../../initrd.img-5.10.0-18-amd64 79.3 MiB (83,108,291 byte) : find . | cpio --create --format='newc' > ../../initrd.img-5.10.0-18-amd64 Il giorno ven 28 ott 2022 alle ore 10:39 Mario Marietto < marietto2...@gmail.com> ha scritto: > If I have understood correctly,is this the correct form ? > > find . -print -depth | cpio --create --format='newc' > > ../../initrd.img-5.10.0-18-amd64 > > > > Il giorno ven 28 ott 2022 alle ore 04:32 Max Nikulin <maniku...@gmail.com> > ha scritto: > >> On 28/10/2022 07:07, Mario Marietto wrote: >> > >> > find . | cpio --create >> I rarely use cpio, but recently there was a thread on tar and unwanted >> hard links in the created archive. "find" output mixes regular files and >> directories. If the archiver recursively walks through received >> directories then result may differ from expectations. >> >> >> > > -- > Mario. > -- Mario.
