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From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.misc
Subject: Re: Problems with afio?
Message-ID: <12337@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 11 Oct 88 18:53:11 GMT
Article-I.D.: steinmet.12337
References: <12307@steinmetz.ge.com> <7649@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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In article <7649@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US> jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US (The Beach Bum) writes:

| >1) How to restore a single file? In cpio I say "cpio -ic file < archive"
| >   and only "file" is restored, with some versions supporting a quoted
| >   wildcard name as well.
| 
| With afio it's
| 
| 	afio -iy file archive
| 
| and you get the exact same result.  If you wanted all but file you'd use

  The documentation certainly doesn't say this, and the copy I have
doesn't work this way. My docs say that the argument of -y is a *prefix*
and all files starting with that string will be restored. As a simple
case of the problems I hit with that, consider trying the restore foo1,
and getting files foo10..foo19, foo100-foo199, using prefix notation I
get about 7MB of matches.

Thanks to all who mentioned this by mail, I appreciate your time in
trying to help me with this.
-- 
	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me