Thomas Dickey <dic...@his.com> writes: > On Thu, 15 Oct 2009, Matthew Smith wrote: > >> Quoth Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. at 14/10/09 23:12... >>> Your font has betrayed you. The single-column-mode option is "-1" >>> (dash-one), your messages says you tried the option "-l" >>> (dash-ell) which requested a >>> detailed (long) listing. >> >> Aha! Sure looked like a lower-case L. Think I need to bump up the >> font size for this little screen! Thank you for pointing that out. >> >> Unfortunately, I still can't get the desired effect. >> >> The ls -1 (#1) gives me my single-column list but piping it to sed >> 1,2d' still gives me the entire directory listing, each item >> separated by a single space. Can't see any reason from the sed >> manpage why this should be and can't locate my awk & sed book (may >> have left it at last job.) > > ls -1 |sed '1,2d' > > gives me a single column.
Right, but when I did echo $(ls -1 | sed '1,2d') as others suggested for testing I got the same result as he did. It is the echo that is putting everything on a single line. -- Carl Johnson ca...@peak.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
