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RE: [cobalt-users] Help Navigating Directories
- Subject: RE: [cobalt-users] Help Navigating Directories
- From: "Dan Kriwitsky" <webhosting@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat Feb 23 06:20:25 2002
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
> > 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.
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Dan Kriwitsky
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