How to open CPIO file format? (Unix CPIO Archive)

Problems with opening CPIO files occur very often among users. Unfortunately, not everyone is aware that the basic and usually the most common problem is the lack of an installed software to handle the CPIO file. Its full name is Unix CPIO Archive and the company responsible for its development is N/A. Your CPIO file has probably an encoded information from the Encoded Files category. If you want to view its contents, open, edit or convert the CPIO file to another format, install one of the applications from the list, which is presented below on this page. Can’t you still open your CPIO file? Please, visit cpio where you will find more information.

Programs using this file extension

Windows
– PeaZip
– Apache Commons Compress
– IZArc
– 7-zip
– ZipZag
– Zipeg

Mac OS
– iArchiver
– ditto
– The Unarchiver

Linux
– GNU cpio
– ditto
– Unix