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I just need to extract an individual file from the zipped archive,and not the entire archive.
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I just need to extract an individual file from the zipped archive,and not the entire archive.

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Thanks a lot for the suggestion.Since the 'tar xvf' does not accept pattern matching - I am doing a <br />
tar xvf /dev/rmt/0 `tar tf | grep '&lt;pattern&gt;'` on the machine to which the tape is attached.<br />
Can this same command be fired with the rsh option from a remote machine(using pattern matching facility of tar)
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Thanks a lot for the suggestion.Since the 'tar xvf' does not accept pattern matching - I am doing a
tar xvf /dev/rmt/0 `tar tf | grep '<pattern>'` on the machine to which the tape is attached.
Can this same command be fired with the rsh option from a remote machine(using pattern matching facility of tar)

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It should work. The only problem I see is the rcp part, this should be changed in something like this:<br />
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rcp -p &lt;hostname&gt;:&lt;path&gt;/&lt;pattern<wbr />&gt; &lt;local_path&gt;<br />
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So, without the &lt;file_to_extract&gt; part.
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It should work. The only problem I see is the rcp part, this should be changed in something like this:

rcp -p <hostname>:<path>/<pattern> <local_path>

So, without the <file_to_extract> part.

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can someone provie the syntax to retrieve a file from a remote tape drive using either dd or tar/rsh.I am using Solaris8.
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can someone provie the syntax to retrieve a file from a remote tape drive using either dd or tar/rsh.I am using Solaris8.

Extracting individual file from tape remotely

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