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Article #287Re: small bug in who(1) of SVR3
From: Guy Harris
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 1991 19:39
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 1991 19:39
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>(Why does Berzerkeley ls have to act the way it does? Yuk. Having to say ls >if the destination is a terminal, but ls -C if I want to pipe into, say, >is nonintuitive at best.) And since this is "comp.bugs.sys5", I note that S5R4's "ls" acts the way the BSD one does; having people add aliases/shell functions to force "-C" on, or wrapping a script around it with a different name to force "-C" on, or having it look at "argv[0]" and force "-C" on if invoked with the right name, might have been better. And when I say "force", I mean *FORCE*. There are times when I want a multi-column listing when "ls" is *not* going directly to the terminal, e.g. when piping it to a pager program.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!linac!uwm.edu!wuarchive!uunet!auspex!guy From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5 Subject: Re: small bug in who(1) of SVR3 Message-ID: <5206@auspex.auspex.com> Date: 12 Jan 91 19:39:42 GMT References: <1991Jan10.130738.10194@unhtel.uucp> <14818@smoke.brl.mil> <4554@lib.tmc.edu> Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara Lines: 12