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Special Forums Hardware Filesystems, Disks and Memory tar tvf from tape backeped using Post 18926 by thehoghunter on Thursday 4th of April 2002 09:22:36 AM
Old 04-04-2002
I don't believe you can - but you can use a for loop to repeat the command a number of times. For example, in csh you can issue the repeat command - $ repeat 4 tar tvf /dev/rmt/0mn and it should run through all the files. Note I added the n on the tape device which tells it NOT to rewind after the command if finished (or you would get the first file listed 4 times). A for loop in ksh can do the same thing
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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS

tcopy

tcopy(1)							   User Commands							  tcopy(1)

NAME

       tcopy - copy a magnetic tape

SYNOPSIS

       tcopy source [destination]

DESCRIPTION

       The  tcopy  utility copies the magnetic tape mounted on the tape drive specified by the source argument. The only assumption made about the
       contents of a tape is that there are two tape marks at the end.

       When only a source drive is specified, tcopy scans the tape, and displays information about the sizes of records and tape files.  If a des-
       tination  is  specified,  tcopy makes a copies the source tape onto the destination tape, with blocking preserved. As it copies, tcopy pro-
       duces the same output as it does when only scanning a tape.

       The tcopy utility requires the use of Berkeley-compatible device names. For example,

       example% tcopy /dev/rmt/1b /dev/rmt/2b

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWesu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       mt(1), ioctl(2), attributes(5)

NOTES

       tcopy will only run on systems supporting an associated set of  ioctl(2) requests.

SunOS 5.10							    10 Mar 2000 							  tcopy(1)
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