Well once again this list has come through for me.
Thanks to all who replied to my message.
There was 3 different approaches from 11 different people. The dd
command was used in various formats.
The suggestions are as follows:
* tar -tvf <tapedevice> | awk '{s+=$3};END{print s}'
*tar -tvf <tapedevice> | awk '
BEGIN {sum = 0}
{sum = sum + $3}
END {print sum}'
* dd if=<tapedevice> of=/dev/null bs=1k
* dd if=<tapedevice> of=/dev/null bs=10k
* tcopy <tapedevice> (Since I've never used the tcopy command before
this is interesting but as suggested by the originator probably won't
give exactly what I needed, I'll have to play with it to see the
output)
Gary Beckett
Myra Systems Corp.
gbeckett_at_myra.com
Received on Thu Dec 14 2000 - 18:44:46 NZDT