Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!mailrus!uflorida!gatech!emcard!wa4mei!rsj
From: rsj@wa4mei.UUCP (Randy Jarrett WA4MEI)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: selective cpio restore
Summary: quote the names containing wildcards
Message-ID: <1484@wa4mei.UUCP>
Date: 3 Oct 88 13:12:11 GMT
References: <644@wa3wbu.UUCP>
Reply-To: rsj@wa4mei.UUCP (Randy Jarrett WA4MEI)
Organization: Amateur Radio Gateway WA4MEI, Chamblee Ga.
Lines: 16

In article <644@wa3wbu.UUCP> john@wa3wbu.UUCP (John Gayman) writes:
>    strm /dev/mt/rmt0 | cpio -icvmu /usr/acct/john/*
>
>    What I wanted to do was restore all the files in the directory john.


    Try using the following.

    strm /dev/mt/rmt0 | cpio -icvmu "/usr/acct/john/*"

    It seems to work for me.

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