diff --git a/doc/changelog.txt b/doc/changelog.txt
index 8a70883..869ba23 100644
--- a/doc/changelog.txt
+++ b/doc/changelog.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 0.13 "" (released xx.xx.xxxx)
 
+  * Fix command argument order when extracting cpio archives.
 
 0.12 "Galaxy Quest" (released 20.11.2010)
 
diff --git a/patoolib/programs/cpio.py b/patoolib/programs/cpio.py
index d8a22c3..5c3c41d 100644
--- a/patoolib/programs/cpio.py
+++ b/patoolib/programs/cpio.py
@@ -44,9 +44,9 @@ def create_cpio(archive, encoding, cmd, *args, **kwargs):
     if kwargs['verbose']:
         cmdlist.append('-v')
     if len(args) != 0:
-        findcmd = ['find', '-print0']
+        findcmd = ['find']
         findcmd.extend([util.shell_quote(x) for x in args])
-        findcmd.append('|')
+        findcmd.extend(['-print0', '|'])
         cmdlist[0:0] = findcmd
         cmdlist.append('-0')
     cmdlist.extend([">", util.shell_quote(archive)])