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cpio:tldr:cd79b
This command consists of two parts:
-
echo "${file1} ${file2} ${file3}"
- This part uses theecho
command to print the values of three variables${file1}
,${file2}
, and${file3}
. The variables can be any file paths or names that you want to include in the cpio archive. -
| cpio -o > ${archive-cpio}
- This part uses the pipe (|
) to redirect the output of the echo command to thecpio
command. Thecpio
command is used to create an archive. The-o
option specifies that it should create a new archive, and the>
redirects the output of thecpio
command to a file named${archive-cpio}
.
In summary, this command takes the values of three variables ${file1}
, ${file2}
, and ${file3}
, and creates a cpio archive file named ${archive-cpio}
which includes the contents of those three files.