Re: Where does the sugar go? (was Re: Sort problem )

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From: Noah Friedman
Date: Sun, 02 Aug 1992 17:44

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In article <1992Aug2.143248.25046@druid.uucp> darcy@druid.uucp (D'Arcy J.M. Cain) writes:
>Or do like ls(1) and find out if the output device is a tty, pipe or
>whatever.  In SVR4 at least ls does a wide listing to the screen but does
>a single file per line when in a pipeline without requiring special flags.

   BSD ls does this too. 

   IMHO, this is a misfeature.  Programs shouldn't generally take notice
when their output has been redirected.  I would prefer that programs like
ls have predictable, obvious behavior.  If I wanted single-column output
I'd use the "-1" flag.

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