Re: Problem with amverify

[Mitch Collinsworth]

On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Ben Elliston wrote:

> I believe this is quite portable:
> 
>       dd bs=1 skip=257 count=5 if=/dev/tape of=/some/tmp/file
>       if test `cat /some/tmp/file` = ustar ; then
>         : This is a tar file.
>       fi

But wait...  You just threw away the first 257 bytes from stdin.
Now what are you going to put into stdout for tar to read?

-Mitch