Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2010 07:01:22 -0700 From: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) To: Aiza <aiza21@comclark.com> Cc: Chip Camden <sterling@camdensoftware.com>, "questions@freebsd.org" <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Bourne .sh ? Message-ID: <86pqz6ugnh.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> In-Reply-To: <4C2D5F58.3050708@comclark.com> (Aiza's message of "Fri, 02 Jul 2010 11:39:04 %2B0800") References: <4C2D2839.3040909@comclark.com> <20100702000124.GG19474@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> <4C2D5F58.3050708@comclark.com>
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>>>>> "Aiza" == Aiza <aiza21@comclark.com> writes:
Aiza> Wow do I feel stupid. You saw through my question to the underlying problem
Aiza> causing the need to strip off that stuff. I just changed the command from ls
Aiza> -l to ls -1 and got what I wanted in the first place.
I'm surprised how often -1 is used when not needed. ls is smart, and
automatically defaults to -1 if the output isn't a terminal. Consider
the difference between:
$ ls
and
$ ls | cat
Back in the day, before the boys at Berkeley added multicolumn output,
there was a concern that changing the format of `ls` would break a lot
of scripts, so they were careful to do it in a backward-compatible
mechanism.
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