Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!torsqnt!hybrid!becker!bdb
From: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker)
Newsgroups: can.usrgroup
Subject: Re: Cpio question
Message-ID: <2306@becker.UUCP>
Date: 17 Jan 90 04:05:37 GMT
References: <9001152048.AA02433@sclcig.UUCP>
Reply-To: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker)
Distribution: ont
Organization: G. T. S., Toronto, Ontario
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In article <9001152048.AA02433@sclcig.UUCP> edwin@sclcig.UUCP (Edwin Allum) writes:
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|HELP HELP,
|How can I abort the following command when cpio fails and prompts for input:
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|find . -print | cpio -ocB > /dev/rct0
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|That is, if there is insufficent tape, the above cpio command prompts for
|the device/filename to continue. If I can send a return it will then abort.
|Note, this command runs in a shell script as a cronjob.

	You can try this - make a file named, say,
	"/usr/local/lib/cr.in" which has a few
	blank lines in it.

		find . -print | cpio -ocB > /dev/rct0 < /usr/local/lib/cr.in

	If cpio goes looking for input it should read
	this file and read a blank line from it.

Cheers,
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