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Date:      Thu, 3 Jan 2002 15:01:26 +0100
From:      F.Xavier Noria <fxn@isoco.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Spaced console output
Message-ID:  <20020103150126.3edca4fe.fxn@isoco.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020103141731.602b5d24.johann@broadpark.no>
References:  <20020103141731.602b5d24.johann@broadpark.no>

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On Thu, 3 Jan 2002 14:17:31 +0100
"J.S." <johann@broadpark.no> wrote:

: Is it possible to get the output in console spaced three times, so it may
: live in parallel harmony with my tcsh prompt?:
: 
:  <johann@ninja> [/home/johann] [14:13]
:  # ls 
: bin/    biz/    doc/    edu/    etc/    mp3/    src/    tmp/    usr/
: 
:  =
: 
:  <johann@ninja> [/home/johann] [14:13]
:  # ls 
:    bin/    biz/    doc/    edu/    etc/    mp3/    src/    tmp/    usr/

Perhaps with some variation of this:

    # ls -FC | perl -pe 'print " " x 2'

The fine work would be to deal with ls's tabs to line columns up always
(try that on /etc).

-- fxn

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