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| From: | Paul Eggert |
| Subject: | bug#25388: Bug in ls, kills existing scripts reading "ls" -1 as input |
| Date: | Sun, 8 Jan 2017 21:25:23 -0800 |
| User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.5.1 |
L A Walsh wrote:
Having 'ls' show different output through a pager
than it does when scrolling off the screen is not a standard
feature
Sure it is. 'ls' has done that since then 1980s. 'ls' shows multicolumn output when the output is a tty, and single-column output when piped into a pager.
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