I am a software engineer working for Novell. Interduction to the problem: There is a file, with the group owner for the file being systemtest, if I execute ls -l for the file, then the group name will be trunkated (i.e. only the first 8 characters will be displyed) The output: # ls -l test_file -rw-r--r-- 1 admin systemte 0 May 31 16:52 test_file Can you please let me know how to get the complete group name? Thanks, Geeta Shivageeta S. Choodi Sr. Software engineer Contact No. 5731856/58/52 Ext: 3005 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Novell _______________________________________________ Bug-fileutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-fileutils