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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

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