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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
