On Wednesday 23 July 2003 04:18, Jon LaBadie wrote:

> > How can I easily and quickly get a list of the last n backup tapes which
> > were used?  I need to be able to identify the tapes for rotation to an
> > offsite storage facility.
>
>       tail -'n' tapelist  ?

No - that gets you the OLDEST n tapes.  head -n tapelist  will get you the n 
most recently used tapes.


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Niall