On 16:53 10 Jan 2002, David T-G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | % the reason is i wasn't aware of the -1 option for ls. am now :) thanks | Ah. That's a good enough reason :-)
Should be needed because ls's output isn't going to a terminal - it will be single column anyway, precisely because we going to a program one almost invariably wants on name per line (and also because on the Good Old Days ls didn't print in multiple columns anyway - that was a new fangled idea from the BSD people). -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ Come, let us retract the foreskin of misconception and apply the wire brush of enlightenment. - Geoff Miller, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
