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Re: Why the is output of ls direct to screen and rediect to file differe
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Eric Blake |
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Re: Why the is output of ls direct to screen and rediect to file different? |
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Sat, 07 Apr 2007 08:24:40 -0600 |
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According to Tomthon on 4/7/2007 4:55 AM:
> Do you mean before ls program output it's result,it would get some attributes
> from file descriptor 1 such as the screen width?
Not quite. It calls istty(), as required by POSIX, to determine whether
output is to a terminal (implies -C) or not (implies -1).
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Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!
Eric Blake address@hidden
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