Path: utzoo!attcan!lsuc!ncrcan!hcr!jim
From: jim@hcr.UUCP (Jim Sullivan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: selective cpio restore
Message-ID: <4042@hcr.UUCP>
Date: 5 Oct 88 13:43:31 GMT
References: <644@wa3wbu.UUCP> <1484@wa4mei.UUCP>
Reply-To: jim@hcrvax.UUCP (Jim Sullivan)
Organization: HCR Corporation, Toronto
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In article <1484@wa4mei.UUCP> rsj@wa4mei.UUCP (Randy Jarrett WA4MEI) writes:
>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/*"
>
of course, you could just escape the asterisk, and enter:

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

That's all Randy is doing by putting the string in quotes.  He's protecting
the string from the shell, which is going to try and expand the asterisk.