Re: file as a directory

From: Peter Foldiak
Date: Mon Nov 29 2004 - 18:21:37 EST


Horst von Brand wrote:

... or just people groping in /etc/passwd wanting to find the whole
entry (not just one field),

the whole entry for joe would be
/etc/passwd/joe

or perhaps look at the 15th character of the
entry for John Doe.


something like
/etc/passwd[fullname = "John Doe"]/character[15]
? what is so mad about that? Peter
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