At 04:27 PM 2/10/2008, Christopher D. Clausen wrote:
I have not tested this (all my user directories are out of a single folder) but can one use the documented set command envirnoment variable display options (set /?) to obtain the first (second, third, etc.) letter of a username?
I haven't tested it, but I really doub't that would work since the CMD.EXE shell is not what is responsible for the redirection operation. It's only under the command shell that you have the option of performing environment variable string manipulations.
Besides, if I take your meaning, you are assuming that the users account names under "/afs/cell/usr/a" all begin with the 'a' character in the path. At our site, they do not. The algorithm at our site was created long ago, and not by me. The algorithm we use is simply to "spread" the accounts accross the alphabetic characters "evenly" so the number of accounts under each letter is generally the same. This was to reduce the stat'ing time of the subfolders.
Rodney
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