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MT (1)

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mt - magnetic tape utility

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Synopsis
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Environment Variables

mt [-v] [-f device] command [count]

The mt command performs certain control operations on tape devices. If no device is specified with the -f option and the TAPE environment is not set, the device /dev/rmt/c0s0n is used.

The command argument may be one of:

erase	Erase the entire tape.
rewind	Rewind the tape.
retension, ret
	Rewind the tape, then wind it to the end of reel, and rewind it again.
wfm, eof, weof
	Write a file mark at the current position.
sfm, fsf
	Seek past the next file mark.
bsf	Seek back over the previous file mark.
fsr	Seek forward to next record.
bsf	Seek backward to previous record.
enddata, append, feom
	Seek past the end of written data.
offline, rewoffl
	Rewind the tape and place the tape unit offline.
status	Report the status of the tape device.

The optional count argument specifies the number of blocks or records to seek, marks to be written, etc.

The -v option causes mt to report the status of the tape device.

TAPE	Used as tape device if no device argument is given on the command line.