Practice

The given example describes how to show the content of the floppy using tar.

# tar tvf /dev/fd0

-rw-r-r- root/root17 2000-10-18 08:26:15 ./test

-rw-r-r- root/root17 2000-10-18 08:26:25 ./test1

-rw-r-r- root/root17 2000-10-18 08:26:32 ./test2

-rw-r-r- root/root17 2000-10-18 08:26:41 ./test3

In the example t represents the names of the specified files are listed every time whenever they occur on the archive. If the files argument is not provided, all the names on the archive are listed. A v means generally, tar does its work silently. The v (verbose) function modifier causes tar to show the name of every file it treats, proceeded through the function letter. The function provides more information about the archive entries than only the name. f displays causes tar to use the next argument as the name of the archive alter of the default device listed in /etc/default/tar directories. tar writes to the standard output or reads from the standard input, whichever is appropriate if the name of the file is a dash (-). Therefore, tar can be used as the head or tail of a pipeline.

Note: if we use tape archive as device files use/dev/ rmt0