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From: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re^4: type discriminating directory listing
Message-ID: <2519@kappl.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 12 May 89 23:42:14 GMT
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tale@pawl.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) writes:
\jdpeek@RODAN.ACS.SYR.EDU (Jerry Peek) writes:
\\When you feed BSD "ls" into a pipe, it doesn't print the filenames in
\\columns; that's good for this test but it looks lousy on the screen if
\\there are lots of filenames.  A kludge for that looks like this:
\\	ls -F | grep '[/@]$' | pr -4 -l1 -t

\In article <2508@star.cs.vu.nl> maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath) writes:
\ML> ls -CF | grep ...

\This is the second posting that said "so use ls -C".

[text explaining the incorrectness deleted]

Thanks David. However, I posted the follow-up just to show that BSD "ls"
CAN print to a pipe in columns. Of course I should have noticed the `bug'.
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