To create a new archive with cpio, which of the following commands would you use, given that you have a list of files to archive from a file called 'filelist.txt'?
The command cpio -ov < filelist.txt > archive.cpio is correct for creating a new archive named archive.cpio using the list of files contained in filelist.txt. The -o option is used with cpio to specify that files are being copied out into an archive, and the -v option is for verbose output, listing files as they are archived.
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