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Perderabo:

Thanks for your support.

The script its suposed to copy files to a tape device using tar. It´s a script for one of our customers, using a SUN Ultra 10 server with Solaris 8 as OS.
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Thanks Perderabo, kduffin and google.

That´s the behaviour of the tar command that I should expect, but my boss insists in saying that it uses buffers and gives back control to the OS before the...

The fact is that I need to be sure the tape really finished writing before issue the next command.

Maybe there is a way to check if the tar process is still working, although it has already gave...

Jorge:

Thanks for your help.

What if I copy to a tape device? I was told that the device may return control really finiching the copy.

Hello !!!

I´m really new at Unix and have to write a script to copy some files from some locations to another one.

I need to be sure that each file has finished copied before starting to copy...