Sean,
Thanks for at least verifying that it is now the default way, as least as
far as we think, RH9 is displaying the long file listing. I kinda figured
that and researched the changes but couldn't find anything listing this as a
change. Oh well, it still might just be a quirk of fate for me.
Sometimes we overlook the obvious. eg. your 10 minutes on the one-liner.
It kills me when I'm deep in thought on something and my wife come us and
says "Why don't you do it this way." The killing part is her solution is
better than mine and she just walked up and look at the problem.
Thanks for your time.
stew
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 10:22:46 -0400
> "Stewart M. Ives" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] /]# ls -la
>> drwx------ 3 medrecord popusers 4096 Oct 7 2002 medrecord
>> drwx------ 4 michaelhelpman popusers 4096 Sep 28 2001
>> michaelhelpman drwx------ 3 michell2krahn popusers 4096 May
>> 21 11:35 michell2krahn [snip] The user names are fully displayed
>> instead of being truncated to maintain the column listing.
>
>
> This really has nothing to do with tar at all. There has been
> an effort to provide better support for long user names within
> Linux. While this output isn't very pleasing to the eye, it _is_
> correct. AFAIK there is no longer a way to get ls to truncate
> user names.
>
> I wasted the last ten minutes on the following one-liner:
>
> ls -l | sed -e 's/^\([^ ]* *[0-9]\+ *[^ ]\{8\}\)[^ ]\+/\1/'
>
> before i realized that:
>
> ls -l | column -t
>
> is probably better anyway....
>
> HTH,
> Sean
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