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I have several Mac users attached to my NAS whose usernames exceed the 16 char user display (ie SportsFreelancer01), so under the ls -al command, it shows up as user "SportsFreelancer", without #. Is there a way to set the default display to more than 16? Say 24 or 36 (or any)?

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If you have multiple names that are the same (SportsFreelancer01, SportsFreelancer02, etc.) You could use the -n option, which would display numbers instead of names.

If you really want the names, try setting LS_COLWIDTHS to 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0. The 4th 0 is the user name; you might try a 64 or 32 in there.

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Is this in a pref somewhere? can I set it for all sessions, or is it session specific? – Tom Mar 13 '12 at 18:22
you could put it in your .bashrc. Test first though by just setting on the command line i.e. export LS_COLWIDTHS="0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0" – Scott Wilson Mar 13 '12 at 18:25
looks like my Mac OS X 10.6.8 has dynamic display on by default. My affected system is an Isilon running OneFS...root runs zsh. Running export does not change display (command executes tho) – Tom Mar 13 '12 at 20:54

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