While doing some ad-hoc scripting on my command line,
I noticed that ls(1) defaults to multi-column output,
even if the output is piped to another command.
The reason for this annoyance is simple:
$ alias |grep ls
ls='ls -CF'
LS(1)
-C Force multi-column output; this is the default when
output is to a terminal.
ls(1) can detect whether stdout isatty(3) all by itself.
I think it's time to remove this artifact from 1996.
OK?
Index: ksh.kshrc
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RCS file: /cvs/src/etc/ksh.kshrc,v
retrieving revision 1.31
diff -u -p -p -u -r1.31 ksh.kshrc
--- ksh.kshrc 18 Feb 2018 21:48:00 -0000 1.31
+++ ksh.kshrc 15 May 2018 18:50:40 -0000
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ case "$-" in
set -o emacs
- alias ls='ls -CF'
+ alias ls='ls -F'
alias h='fc -l | more'
case "$TERM" in
