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RE: [cobalt-users] Help Navigating Directories



> > But while brandon0 may not be brandon0108, in this case it probably 
> > is; the directory listing always truncates to eight characters.
> 
> I thought I pointed the following before, but perhaps I 
> didn't.  The -n flag on ls returns uids and gids instead of 
> user names and group names.  If unsure you can do something 
> along the lines of "ls -nl", then check the uids in 
> /etc/passwd and the gids in /etc/group.
> 

Actually, I posted before your mention of the 8 character issue showed
up, but it was before Jeff posted.
The list is sometimes quite slow about my posts appearing.

-- 
Dan Kriwitsky

 


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