From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Apr 30 18:28:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from freeway.dcfinc.com (cx74889-a.phnx3.az.home.com [24.1.193.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3A7437B422 for ; Mon, 30 Apr 2001 18:28:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chad@freeway.dcfinc.com) Received: (from chad@localhost) by freeway.dcfinc.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA00315; Mon, 30 Apr 2001 18:28:02 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from chad) From: "Chad R. Larson" Message-Id: <200105010128.SAA00315@freeway.dcfinc.com> Subject: Re: tail In-Reply-To: <200104300841220210.0C7DBEE8@smtp> from "Arthur W. Neilson III" at "Apr 30, 1 08:41:22 am" To: art@pilikia.net Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 18:28:01 -0700 (MST) Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: chad@DCFinc.com Organization: DCF, Inc. X-O/S: FreeBSD 2.2.8-STABLE X-Unexpected: The Spanish Inquisition X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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