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Could some kind soul please tell me the correct syntax?

I have tried:

        cpio -iBvudmk igate/pub/X11R5*          (no good)
        cpio -iBvudmk igate/pub/X11R5/*         (also no good)
        cpio -iBvudmk igate/pub/X11R5           (I give up!)

What is the magic command line?  Please help.  Thanks.
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   Hi everybody.  I have tried and tried to instruct cpio to retrieve
   a complete subdirectory heirarchy from tape and I can't figure it
   out (sigh....)

   Could some kind soul please tell me the correct syntax?

   I have tried:

           cpio -iBvudmk igate/pub/X11R5*       (no good)
           cpio -iBvudmk igate/pub/X11R5/*              (also no good)
           cpio -iBvudmk igate/pub/X11R5                (I give up!)

   What is the magic command line?  Please help.  Thanks.

You didn't say what the error was.  You might have just forgotten the
'c' option (if you need it), or . may have igate/pub/X11R5/whatever
under it, or you may have the wrong /dev file, or...

In general, you should use ' characters with *'s.  E.g.:

        cpio -icdmuvB 'igate/pub/X11R5*' < /dev/scsi/qtape1

or something similar should work.

The quotes are very necessary.  You might want to do
the following to see what the directory of the archive
is first because it may have a "./" in it first.  

cpio -iBvt < {cpio-file}

If there is an error, try iBcvt, it may need the 'c' in there.

If it does have the "./" preceeding the path, then use

cpio -iBvudm "./igate/pub/X11/R5*" {cpio-file}

Good luck.

rick
:-)

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:Hi everybody.  I have tried and tried to instruct cpio to retrieve
:a complete subdirectory heirarchy from tape and I can't figure it
:out (sigh....)

:Could some kind soul please tell me the correct syntax?

:I have tried:

:       cpio -iBvudmk igate/pub/X11R5*          (no good)
:       cpio -iBvudmk igate/pub/X11R5/*         (also no good)
:       cpio -iBvudmk igate/pub/X11R5           (I give up!)

Put quotes around your regular expressions to keep the shell from
expanding them (same problem with -name in find).
        cpio -iBvudmk 'igate/pub/X11R5*'

Bill
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