Managing File Systems in Oracle® Solaris 11.2

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Updated: July 2014
 
 

How to List the Files on a Tape (cpio)

Note - Listing the table of contents on a tape takes a long time because the cpio command must process the entire archive.
  1. Insert an archive tape into the tape drive.
  2. List the files on the tape.
    $ cpio -civt < /dev/rmt/n
Example 4-7  Listing the Files on a Tape (cpio)

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
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