Bourne .sh ?

[Randal L. Schwartz]

>>>>> "Aiza" == Aiza  <aiza21 at comclark.com> writes:

Aiza> Wow do I feel stupid. You saw through my question to the underlying problem
Aiza> causing the need to strip off that stuff. I just changed the command from ls
Aiza> -l to ls -1 and got what I wanted in the first place.

I'm surprised how often -1 is used when not needed.  ls is smart, and
automatically defaults to -1 if the output isn't a terminal.  Consider
the difference between:

    $ ls

and

    $ ls | cat

Back in the day, before the boys at Berkeley added multicolumn output,
there was a concern that changing the format of `ls` would break a lot
of scripts, so they were careful to do it in a backward-compatible
mechanism.

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