[ale] CPIO and > 2Gig files

Geoffrey esoteric at 3times25.net
Fri Oct 8 12:39:16 EDT 2004


Bridges, Doug wrote:
> 'cat bigFile | cpio -itv' worked and listed the files in the archive.
> However, I tried 'cat bigFile | cpio -ic' and it died with "cpio:
> warning: skipped 42336813 bytes of junk; cpio: Memory exhausted"

Try it without the -c ???

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Until later, Geoffrey       Registered Linux User #108567
                             AT&T Certified UNIX System Programmer - 1995



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