On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, Sean Estabrooks 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....
Thanks also for the one liner. I noticed this on RH 8.0 too, but found
merely annoying.
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