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 76 Oct 7 08:17 2003, filea -r--r--r-- 1 kryten staff 76 Oct 7 08:17 2003, fileb -r--r--r-- 1 kryten staff 76 Oct 7 08:17 2003, filec drwxr-xr-x 2 kryten staff 0 Oct 7 08:17 2003, letters drwxr-xr-x 2 kryten staff 0 Oct 7 08:18 2003, reports 16 blocks |