Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 00:28:08 +0200 From: Paul Everlund <tdv94ped@cs.umu.se> To: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cat: A bug or just as it should be? Message-ID: <3CC099F8.531ECECE@cs.umu.se> References: <3CC08E8E.B5EEEA90@cs.umu.se> <20020419174541.A47020@rochester.rr.com> <3CC0954C.18B62401@cs.umu.se> <20020420102030.A6992@grimoire.chen.org.nz>
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Jonathan Chen wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 12:08:12AM +0200, Paul Everlund wrote: > > [...] > > fw# ls -l > > total 2 > > drwxr-xr-x 10 root wheel 512 20 Mar 01:20 home > > fw# > > > > Doing a 'cat *' there gives the following result > > (edited somewhat by me: "UUU" means an active user > > and "uuu" means an user who has been removed): > > hE? > > ??.<8? > > ??..· "UUU"yF? > > ??"uuu"·???"UUU"-pF?¶? > > "UUU"fF????"UUU"lQ-gF????"UUU"mQ-:????"UUU"^F? > > > > ??w > > ww¦C?h?? "UUU"-C?T??"uuu"fw# > > > > Those "uuu" users, removed ones, are in no .his- > > tory as there are no history file in the directory > > /usr/home. > > You are cat'ing the contents of the directory "home" and getting > binary output. Yep. But why does REMOVED directories show up? In another directory removed files too shows up. Is this good? I can understand that dirs and files that are on the HDD shows, but removed ones? Is this due to left behind references of some kind? Best regards, Paul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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