* Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080426 09:44]: > Why does the first 'ls' not honor columns while the second does? How > does 'ls' detect that the COLUMNS=120 is somehow different from the > default COLUMNS value?
I would hazard a guess that COLUMNS isn't "exported" from your
shell environment in the first case. In the other cases, the explicit:
VAR=... command
the shell is told to set VAR explicitly before starting command, in
addition to any exported vars.
a.
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