Re: VOLHDR or something

"Zoran Ljubisic" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Joerg Schilling wrote:
> > "Zoran Ljubisic" <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> star -c f=/dev/st0 VOLHDR=Test .
> >>
> >> How can I read VOLHDR from tape?
> >> I don't want to extract nothing but a VOLHDR.
> >
> > This script "finds" the file mark position on tape asuming that
> > the volhdr is follows a "hostname:directory" rule:
>
> I used your script as base for my. On suse 9.3 or 10.0 there is man match 
> page, but there is not match command?!?
> Therefore I must use grep and other tricks to achive same result.
>
> TAPE="/tmp/kaseta.star"
>
> dd if=$TAPE bs=500b count=1 of=/tmp/sdd.$$ 2> /dev/null
> Zaglavlje=`star -tv f=/tmp/sdd.6808 2> /dev/null | grep "Volume Header" | 
> awk '{print $9}'`

Why do you use a completely unsuitable blocksize although my script was OK?

Jörg

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