On Thu 30 Oct 2025 at 23:54:52 (+0100), Nicolas George wrote: > Greg Wooledge (HE12025-10-30): > > I think we're getting lost in the terminology. When the output of ls > > is a pipe, ls writes one filename per line. The output is therefore > > a single column. > > When the output of ls is not a tty (for example, a pipe), it does not > format columns, plural. Of course, if it does not format columns, the > output will appear as a single column.
This discussion may mystify the OP if they're still using that alias. Cheers, David.
