Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 08:41:22 -1000 From: "Arthur W. Neilson III" <art@pilikia.net> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tail Message-ID: <200104300841220210.0C7DBEE8@smtp>
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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.
--
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/ ) _/_ It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data.
/--/ __ / Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories,
/ (_/ (_<__ Instead of theories to suit facts.
-- Sherlock Holmes, "A Scandal in Bohemia"
Arthur W. Neilson III, WH7N - FISTS #7448
Bank of Hawaii Tech Support
http://www.pilikia.net
art@pilikia.net, aneilson@boh.com, wh7n@arrl.net
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