cpio

Copy files in and out of archives. Supports the following archive formats: cpio's custom binary, old ASCII, new ASCII, crc, HPUX binary, HPUX old ASCII, old tar, and POSIX.1 tar. More information: https://www.gnu.org/software/cpio.

echo "path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ..." | cpio -o > archive.cpio

find path/to/directory | cpio -ov > archive.cpio

cpio -idv < archive.cpio