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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