https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/tar/m-p/2678398#M907720 The other stuff is not junk, it is just the normal output from what you are doing.<BR /><BR />To get just the date and the filename you'll have to do something like:<BR /><BR /># tar -tvf /dev/rmt/1m | awk '{ print $4, $5, $6, $7, $8 }' &gt; file1.txt Thu, 07 Mar 2002 20:20:07 GMT Patrick Wallek 2002-03-07T20:20:07Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/tar/m-p/2678397#M907719 Hi<BR /> I am trying to read the contents of the tape into the file using the command tar -tvf /dev/rmt/1m &gt; file1.txt. I want to retrive only the date and the location and name of the file. But it is giving me the date and file name with bytes and junk stuff. Can anyone help me out in this.<BR /><BR />Thanks<BR />Prathap. Thu, 07 Mar 2002 20:13:33 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/tar/m-p/2678397#M907719 Prathap_1 2002-03-07T20:13:33Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/tar/m-p/2678398#M907720 The other stuff is not junk, it is just the normal output from what you are doing.<BR /><BR />To get just the date and the filename you'll have to do something like:<BR /><BR /># tar -tvf /dev/rmt/1m | awk '{ print $4, $5, $6, $7, $8 }' &gt; file1.txt Thu, 07 Mar 2002 20:20:07 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/tar/m-p/2678398#M907720 Patrick Wallek 2002-03-07T20:20:07Z