On 01/09/2017 12:48 PM, L A Walsh wrote: >> Sure it is. 'ls' has done that since then 1980s. 'ls' shows >> multicolumn output when the output is a tty, and single-column output >> when piped into a pager. >> > ---- > That's not what I'm used to:
> ls alias on my machines: > alias ls='ls -CF --show-control-chars --color=always' That's because you are using an alias to alter 'ls' to non-default behavior for your personal default. Try again with '\ls' everywhere you previously used 'ls', and you will see that output to the terminal is different than output to a file or pipeline. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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