Guardian User's Guide

Managing Files With TACL

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Listing Files and Their Information

The TACL program has several commands that give you information about your files or

about other users’ files.

Listing Subvolume Contents (FILES Command)

To list the names of all the files in your current default subvolume, enter the FILES

command without a subvolume name:

To list all the files in any subvolume, enter FILES followed by the subvolume name. For

example, to list the files in the subvolume $GERT.FELIX:

To list the files that reside in a subvolume on another system, give the complete

subvolume name:

Using Wildcards

You can use these wild-card characters to match characters anywhere in a subvolume or

volume name (but not a node name):

* Use the asterisk (*) to match zero to eight characters.

? Use the question mark (?) to match a single character.

You cannot use wild cards to match the periods (.) that separate the elements of a file-

name string (system, volume, subvolume, and file names). Also, if you use a wild card

in the volume name, you must include the dollar sign.

For example, to list all the files in every subvolume on the $SYSTEM disk whose

subvolume name begins with the letters SYS:

You can use more than one wild card in the same command. For example, to list all files

that reside in any subvolume that has a three-character name beginning with KH on all

volumes beginning with $MT:

1> FILES

$GERT.STEIN

BELL BOOK CANDLE PATIENCE SARAH

2> FILES $GERT.FELIX

$GERT.FELIX

AGILITY CATDOM CATRWAL COMIX FELINES

3> FILES \DIVE.$WRECK.RICH

4> FILES $SYSTEM.SYS*

6> FILES $MT*.KH?