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Started by Greg Woods
Fri, 26 Sep 1986 17:16
Restore(8) bug (yet another...) 4.2BSD
Author: Greg Woods
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1986 17:16
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1986 17:16
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I have found what I think is a bug in restore(8) on a VAX 750 under 4.2BSD. I would like to know if anyone else has seen it and if there is a fix for it (I'd settle for a way to get around it). I want to restore a directory from a dump tape that has a LOT of files in it (too many to type them all in individually), and just a few subdirectories. Unfortunately, those sub- directories contain some very large files that I don't want and which won't all fit on the disk with its current contents. So, I tried typing "add .", which seems to work (it has worked in the past to restore heirarchies, and cd'ing around and using "ls" shows that everything is properly marked for extraction). The problem comes in that when I try to delete the subdirectories I don't want, it always says file: not on extraction list Tnis despite the fact that "ls" marks it with a "*" (which supposedly indicates that it IS on the extraction list). I have tried "./dir", "dir", "/woods/dir", cd / and delete woods/dir, all with the same result. So, is this a bug or am I reading the man page wrong? It seems as though ANY of those should work but none of them do. I have also tried the same things with individual files instead of directories, also with the same negative results. Is there ANY way to extract all but a few files under a given directory without typing in all the &%#@*! names by hand? --Greg
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