BK-SFIO(1)

bk sfio 💅 — BitKeeper User’s Manual

okay so this is the bk sfio(none) page, and it’s giving BitKeeper file archiver energy. Bestie, it’s a whole little tool for moving files around, and we’re gonna get into it. 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

bk sfio — BitKeeper file archiver ✨

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

bk sfio [−qm] −i < archive.sfio
bk sfio [−m] −p < archive.sfio
bk sfio [−qmf] −o < filelist

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So bk sfio is similar to cpio(1). Like, spiritually. It exists because they literally could not find a single CPIO format that was portable across all of their supported platforms. not one 😭 so they made their own thing.

bk sfio is used to transfer data during bk import and bk clone commands. slay for logistics 💖

There are three ways to run sfio, as listed above:

1. The first creates files from an archive.
2. The second lists the contents of an archive.
3. The third creates an archive from the specified list of files.

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

• −e — Echo mode ✨. After each file is archived or extracted, print the file to stdout. This is separate from the print to stderr controlled by −q. It’s intended to be used by programs that want to perform actions after each file is unpacked when reading over a slow pipe. slow-pipe bestie behavior 🐢
• −i — Extract all files from the archive. 🎀
• −m — Transfer file modes (default is not to do so). If the archive was created with −m, then it must be extracted with −m. We will not turn this on by default — transferring the file modes is not always the correct answer, so it’s forced to be explicit. do not forget the mode tea 😤
• −o — Create an archive. 🦋
• −p — List contents of an archive. 👀
• −q — Quiet mode. When combined with create or extract, it does not list files as they are added or extracted. 🤫
• −f — Force mode. When combined with extract, it will overwrite existing files that exist in the archive. 💥

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⚠️ NOTE ⚠️

👑 Heads up, bestie: −m will become the default in a future version of bk sfio.

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🎀 CATEGORY 🎀

Repository 📚

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💖 cute little sign-off, periodt: the footer gives BitKeeper Inc, 1E1, and bk sfio(none) — that’s the whole source/version/date-footer situation, and there’s no separate date printed. bye bye bestie 🫶🌸