username best practices and other conventions

Kenneth Porter shiva at sewingwitch.com
Thu Mar 2 21:08:42 UTC 2006


--On Thursday, March 02, 2006 4:21 PM +0000 Joe Desbonnet 
<jdesbonnet at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think it's time to move beyond those traditional limits. At some
> point we got over the 14 char file name limits, and the world is a
> better place for it.

I use a lot of real usernames longer than 8 characters and my biggest issue 
is ugly ls output. How do others deal with that? Can you get ls to widen 
columns to the width needed to accommodate the widest token? (A similar 
problem occurs when listing a very large file, since the size overflows 
that column.)




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