>>>>> "jrj" == John R Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Here is what I trying:
>>
>> amrestore -p /dev/st0 ray hda8 | tar xvf /etc/autorpm.d .
jrj> Dan Shauver is correct but left out the most important part, how to
jrj> do this right :-). I'm not 100% certain what you were trying to do
jrj> (why did you have that '.' on the end?), but on the assumption you were
jrj> trying to restore /etc/autorpm.d, it would be:
jrj> amrestore -p /dev/st0 ray hda8 | tar xvf - /etc/autorpm.d
jrj> The key is to give '-' as the file for tar to read so it processes the
jrj> pipe input.
Thanks so much, I knew it was something dumb I was forgetting.
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