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Re: vdir needed? dd if=/directory
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Paul Jarc |
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Re: vdir needed? dd if=/directory |
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Wed, 21 Nov 2001 17:12:41 -0500 |
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Dan Jacobson <address@hidden> wrote:
> Anyway, what I'm looking for is something that can dump out content of
> directories:
> 0tmp$ ls -ld /tmp
> drwxrwxrwt 12 root root 9216 Nov 20 21:58 /tmp/
...
> I want to see what lies in those 9216 bytes, please, using a
> /bin/sometool , not having to write a C program to do it.
On some OSes, cat works. On others, it's impossible. If read(2) can
set errno to EISDIR, on your system, it's impossible.
paul