From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 3 6: 1:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.bcn.isoco.net (ldap.isoco.net [212.9.90.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 507FE37B41B for ; Thu, 3 Jan 2002 06:01:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from fxn.bcn.isoco.net (fxn.bcn.isoco.net [172.16.1.50]) by smtp.bcn.isoco.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 3914ECD2B5 for ; Thu, 3 Jan 2002 15:01:28 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 15:01:26 +0100 From: F.Xavier Noria 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> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.6.6 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386--freebsd4.4) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 3 Jan 2002 14:17:31 +0100 "J.S." wrote: : Is it possible to get the output in console spaced three times, so it may : live in parallel harmony with my tcsh prompt?: : : [/home/johann] [14:13] : # ls : bin/ biz/ doc/ edu/ etc/ mp3/ src/ tmp/ usr/ : : = : : [/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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message