System Administration Guide: Basic Administration

Example—Copying Files to a Single Formatted Diskette (tar)

The following example shows how to copy files named evaluation* to a diskette.


$ cd /home/smith
$ volcheck
$ ls evaluation*
evaluation.doc   evaluation.doc.backup
$ tar cvf /vol/dev/aliases/floppy0 evaluation*
a evaluation.doc 86 blocks
a evaluation.doc.backup 84 blocks
$ tar tvf /vol/dev/aliases/floppy0