On 18:34 08 Oct 2003, Distribution Lists <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| I'm trying to restore subdirectories with CPIO
| I want everything under /cvsroot restored, I'm using
|
| cpio -iuvdB /cvsroot < /dev/nst0
|
| but not luck
|
| I used
| cpio -iuvdB /cvsroot/* < /dev/nst0
|
| but just restored files under /cvsroot
|
| What's wrong ?
I'm guessing /cvsroot wasn't empty when you said that. So "/cvsroot/*"
got expanded and thus cpio saw an explicit list of things to extract. Try
quoting the pattern to prevent the shell expanding it so that cpio gets
a nice untouched "/cvsroot/*" string, thus:
cpio -iuvdB '/cvsroot/*' < /dev/nst0
Cheers,
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