On Aug 9, Joey Hess wrote > joost witteveen wrote: > > rulcmc:/usr/lib/menu$ ls |wc > > 75 75 519 > > Unless you have ls aliased to ls -l or something, that's not a very > accurate number. ;-)
Bzzt. Wrong answer. You don't win the laundromat. :-) GNU ls checks whether or not it is outputting directly to a tty; observe the difference between "ls" (multi-column output) and "ls | more" (single column output). Ray -- Obsig: developing a new sig -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
