>>>>> "Aiza" == Aiza <aiz...@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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