cpio/afio writing directories?

[Bob Hoffman]

In article <23 at libove.UUCP> root at libove.UUCP (The Super User) writes:
>... it seems that cpio/afio, unlike tar, require real file names,
>not just directory names...

Right.  Tar knows how to traverse directories; afio does not.  Afio
wants a complete path to each file.  An excerpt from the afio manual page:

     With -o, reads pathnames from the standard input and writes
     an archive.

>My question: How do I tell afio/cpio that 
>
>% echo '/x /y /z' | afio -o
>
>means /x /y /z and all subfiles also?

Echo is not what you want.  Use this:

% find /x /y /z -print | afio -o

	---Bob.

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Bob Hoffman, N3CVL       {allegra, bellcore, cadre, idis, psuvax1}!pitt!hoffman
Pitt Computer Science    hoffman at vax.cs.pittsburgh.edu