selective cpio restore

[Randy Jarrett WA4MEI]

In article <644 at wa3wbu.UUCP> john at 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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