Listing the table of contents on a tape takes a long time because the cpio command must process the entire archive.
The following example shows how to list the files on the tape in drive 0.
$ cpio -civt < /dev/rmt/0 -r--r--r-- 1 kryten staff 206663 Jul 14 13:52 2010, filea -r--r--r-- 1 kryten staff 206663 Jul 14 13:52 2010, fileb -r--r--r-- 1 kryten staff 206663 Jul 14 13:52 2010, filec drwxr-xr-x 2 kryten staff 0 Jul 14 13:52 2010, letters drwxr-xr-x 2 kryten staff 0 Jul 14 13:52 2010, reports 1280 blocks |