command to display my tape drives (rmt's)


 
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Old 03-25-2008
There is no direct way to get it on the same line, but why don't you just use one (or several) of the abundance of text-manipulation programs (sed, awk, grep, cut, .... ) UNIX offers and put the information onto one line by some little shell script?

bakunin
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Old 03-25-2008
"upon reboot of the AIX server, the /dev/rmt# assigments sometimes change"

I'd concentrate on that problem if I were you. This should never happen after a normal reboot, there must be some thing else happening for the device names to change.
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