[Novalug] Fill in the blanks?

Michael Henry lug-user@drmikehenry.com
Sat Mar 17 06:42:22 EDT 2012


On 03/16/2012 07:29 AM, William Sutton wrote:
> Chiming in later, but the ls -1 part is probably unnecessary.

One small note: if you do use the ``ls`` solution, the ``-1``
flag is not necessary, since the default multi-column output of
``ls`` changes to single-column when the output is not a
terminal.

For example, compare:

  ls /bin

with:

  ls /bin | cat

>From the info page[1]:

"""
`-1'
`--format=single-column'
     List one file per line.  This is the default for `ls' when standard
     output is not a terminal.
"""

Michael Henry

[1]:
http://www.fifi.org/cgi-bin/info2www?(fileutils)General+output+formatting




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