Lo, on Wednesday, January 16, dman did write: > On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 10:31:47AM -0600, Richard Cobbe wrote: > | Lo, on Friday, January 11, Craig Dickson did write: > | > | > Richard Cobbe wrote: > | > > | > > (Just out of curiosity, is the COLUMNS trick documented anywhere? I > | > > couldn't find it in any of the obvious manpages: dpkg(8), bash(1), > | > > environ(7).) > | > > | > Yes, it actually is in the bash manpage: > | > > | > Simple Commands > | > > | > A simple command is a sequence of optional variable assignments > | > followed by blank-separated words and redirections, and > | > terminated by a control operator. The first word specifies the > | > command to be executed, and is passed as argument zero. The > | > remaining words are passed as arguments to the invoked command. > | > | Wrong trick. I meant the special meaning of the COLUMNS environment > | variable, not the ability to set it on the command line for a single > | process. > > ncurses thing, apparently.
Ah. I would not have thought to look there. Thanks! Richard