Re: rebuilding an instance from a cpio file?

> I have a huge cpio file that a sys admin created when it was decided to
> remove an instance (8i) from a test server. I don't know for certain what
> to do with this file, but I'd like to get that instance back up and
> running long enough to do an export of the db.
>
> Can somebody help with the syntax to list out the contents of the cpio
> file?

man 1 cpio;

    cpio -it < $inputfile; # short listing (like ls)

or

    cpio -itv < $inputfile; # verbose listing (like ls -l)

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