On Saturday, November 5, 2016 9:20:02 PM CET 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote: > Mention on the man page that > $ ls /proc/[0-9]*/stat | cpio -o > won't actually include the contents of the files, > whereas > $ tar -c /proc/[0-9]*/stat > will. > > cpio 2.11+dfsg-5
Dan knows already, but to close this from GNU cpio POV, tar neither reads the file contents: http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-tar@gnu.org/msg05205.html Pavel