Non-interactive multivolume restore

[Rodney W. Grimes]

> On Sun, Feb 3, 2019, 8:23 PM George Mitchell <george+freebsd at m5p.com wrote:
> 
> > Historically, the restore program assumed that the volumes of a
> > multivolume dump were on separate physical reels of tape, and that a
> > human would have to load each tape to complete the restore.  But now
> > I have multivolume dumps that are simply separate online files from
> > which I would like to restore without having to type each name in
> > one at a time.  However, you can give only one -f option on the
> > command line, and additional file names are assumed to specify the
> > files you want to restore, as opposed to additional dump volumes.
> >
> > I thought perhaps 'cat dumpvols... | restore -x -f -', but that
> > gets confused at the beginning of the second volume.
> >
> > What's the right way to do this?
> >
> 
> Multiple -f args? Maybe a printf format to clue restore into how to
> construct the names? Maybe also some pipe command with a similar %
> specification to allow restore from compressed files..

Doesnt restore read these file names from stdin?
#!/bin/sh
restore rf foo.first <<!
foo.second
foo.third
foo.forth
!

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Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes at freebsd.org