Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 18:28:01 -0700 (MST) From: "Chad R. Larson" <chad@DCFinc.com> To: art@pilikia.net Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tail Message-ID: <200105010128.SAA00315@freeway.dcfinc.com> In-Reply-To: <200104300841220210.0C7DBEE8@smtp> from "Arthur W. Neilson III" at "Apr 30, 1 08:41:22 am"
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As I recall, Arthur W. Neilson III wrote: > 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. If you've got a working shell, "echo *" will frequently work to navigate as well. -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm? chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org larson1@home.com DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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