GNU cpio

  • Developer
    Free Software Foundation, Inc.
  • System
    Linux

GNU cpio overview

By default, all software supports multiple file extensions. GNU cpio supports at least 2 different file extensions. The basic files that GNU cpio supports are .CPIO. However, not all of the extensions listed on the list are always used to save the effects of work in GNU cpio. Very often, files with such extensions are used as source data files used by GNU cpio.

GNU cpio can be used to convert file formats between the file extensions listed below. You can open a file with one of the file extensions below via GNU cpio and try to save it in another file format, also supported by GNU cpio.

File extensions recognized by GNU cpio