Hello Monks,

I would like to manipulate a cpio archive. CPAN has http://search.cpan.org/~pixel/Archive-Cpio-0.07/ This looks just what I need. Unfortunately, it does not what I expect.

Im my cpio archive test.cpio are three files: test1, test2, and test3

use Archive::Cpio;
my $cpio = Archive::Cpio->new;
$cpio->read('test.cpio');
$cpio->remove('test1');
$cio->write('newtest.cpio');

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Unfortunately, test.cpio is identical to newtest.cpio; I want test1 to be gone. Is this a bug or my mistake?

One step further, I would like to insert a new file: new1. The docs give me $cpio->add_data($filename, $data, $opthashref).
$cpio->add_data('new1',$data, ???) did not do it. In addition, I have no idea about $opthashref. Any suggestions?

Thank you.

In reply to manipulating cpio archive by momo33

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