Marco Pfatschbacher: > I noticed that ls(1) defaults to multi-column output, > even if the output is piped to another command.
I guess this is intentional? > ls(1) can detect whether stdout isatty(3) all by itself. > I think it's time to remove this artifact from 1996. Even the oldest version of BSD ls(1) I can find in the CSRG repository already did this, in 1982. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber [email protected]
