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		eichin on May 24, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to destroy your OS with tar and now there's pax (since POSIX looked at both of them and shuddered :-)

hcfman on May 24, 2024 [–]

My WOW with cpio is pretty elementary. I've never found anything in all my usage to shudder about. Possibly there are smarty pants usages in there that could make you shudder I don't know. But why choose smarty pants if elementary is perfectly satisfactory.

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