Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 13:39:55 -0700 From: Fred Gilham <gilham@csl.sri.com> To: art@pilikia.net Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tail Message-ID: <200104302039.f3UKdtN12758@quarter.csl.sri.com> In-Reply-To: Message from "Arthur W. Neilson III" <art@pilikia.net> of "Mon, 30 Apr 2001 08:41:22 -1000." <200104300841220210.0C7DBEE8@smtp>
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Arthur W. Neilson III writes: ---------------------------------------- This very functionality, being able to cat a directory, saved my butt some years ago on an unfamiliar sys5r2 box which had crashed and no filesystem but root would mount. ls wasn't in the path and I remembered I could use cat dirname as a crude ls in order to navigate. This helped me find fsck in an obscure directory and repair the hosed filesystems and recover the system. ---------------------------------------- I've had a similar experience under like circumstances. I suspect that many system administrators, having painted themselves or found themselves painted into a corner, are glad that low-level functionality like this exists. -- Fred Gilham gilham@csl.sri.com And then [Clinton] turned to Hunter Thompson, of all people, and said with wholehearted fervor, "We're going to put one hundred thousand new police officers on the street." I was up all night persuading Hunter that this was not a personal threat. -- P. J. O'Rourke To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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