Re: Re: Why the is output of ls direct to screen and rediect to file different?

[James Youngman]

On 4/7/07, Tomthon <address@hidden> wrote:
> Do you mean before ls program output it's result,it would get some attributes 
> from file descriptor 1 such as the screen width? If it can't get it,it would 
> just output the simple format as one filename per line?

Well, see the STDOUT section of
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/ls.html

James.