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Old 08-18-2005
How to use the command Tar to find a file
Hello,

I am just using the command Tar to find if a file was backuped on my tape.

Can you help me with that command. I am using the command :
tar -tvf /dev/rmt/4m /kcc_dms/AC7/c15a* > toto.txt to find all files c15a* in these subdirectories on my tape. But it doesn't work correctly.

Can you help me for that problem.

Thanks

Christian
# 2  
Old 08-18-2005
From the tar manual:

Code:
           If a named file matches a directory whose contents has
           been  written to the tarfile, this directory is recur-
           sively extracted. The owner,  modification  time,  and
           mode are restored (if possible); otherwise, to restore
           owner, you must be the  super-user.  Character-special
           and  block-special  devices (created by mknod(1M)) can
           only be extracted by the super-user.  If no file argu-
           ment  is  given,  the entire content of the tarfile is
           extracted. If the tarfile contains several files  with
           the same name, each file is written to the appropriate
           directory, overwriting the previous one. Filename sub-
           stitution  wildcards  cannot  be  used  for extracting
           files from the archive. Rather, use a command  of  the
           form:

     tar xvf ... /dev/rmt/0 `tar tf ... /dev/rmt/0 | \
          grep 'pattern' `


So you need to use something like:

tar -tvf /dev/rmt/4m | grep '/kcc_dms/AC7/c15a' > toto.txt
# 3  
Old 08-18-2005
I think this ll do :

tar -tvf /dev/rmt/4m | grep 'c15a' > toto.txt
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