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cpio

Summary

cpio is a file format family[1]. cpio draws 149 Wikipedia views per month (file_format_family category, ranking #21 of 57).[2]

Key Facts

  • cpio's instance of is recorded as file format family[3].
  • cpio's instance of is recorded as file archiver[4].
  • cpio's instance of is recorded as command[5].
  • cpio's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/087plb[6].
  • cpio's described at URL is recorded as https://people.freebsd.org/~kientzle/libarchive/man/cpio.5.txt[7].
  • cpio's media type is recorded as application/x-cpio[8].
  • cpio's file extension is recorded as cpio[9].
  • cpio's different from is recorded as GNU cpio[10].
  • cpio's PRONOM file format ID is recorded as fmt/635[11].
  • cpio's File Format Wiki page ID is recorded as Cpio[12].
  • cpio's Quora topic ID is recorded as CPiO[13].
  • cpio's Uniform Type Identifier is recorded as public.cpio-archive[14].
  • cpio's man page is recorded as cpio.5[15].
  • cpio's man page is recorded as cpio.1[16].
  • cpio's Gentoo Wiki article is recorded as Cpio[17].

Body

Designation and Status

Recorded instance of include file format family[3], file archiver[4], and command[5].

Why It Matters

cpio draws 149 Wikipedia views per month (file_format_family category, ranking #21 of 57).[2] cpio has Wikipedia articles in 14 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[18] cpio is known by 6 alternative names across languages and contexts.[19]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . gnu.org. Retrieved . gnu.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . Quora. wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . developer.apple.com. Retrieved . developer.apple.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [18] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [19] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). cpio. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/cpio
MLA “cpio.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/cpio.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_cpio_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{cpio}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/cpio}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
LLM prompt According to 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph (aggregator of Wikidata, Wikipedia, and authoritative open-data sources): cpio — https://4ort.xyz/entity/cpio (retrieved 2026-05-03)

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