[PLUG] Control of 'ls' display
Rich Shepard
rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Sat Nov 23 18:39:16 UTC 2002
On Sat, 23 Nov 2002, Kyle Accardi wrote:
> Not sure what process handles these but it works in a VT as well as an xterm,
I'm not surprised. I would be surprised if they were different.
> $ echo $COLUMNS
> 92
>
> $ echo $LINES
> 55
> guess is that ls checks $COLUMNS and determines how many columns it can
> display based on the longest filename.
Ah, that makes sense. I wasn't aware of the environment variables above.
> Are you asking how to make the listing go across
>
> a b
> c d
>
> instead of down?
>
> a c
> b d
>
Nope. Just curious how bash or ls decides what I see.
Thanks,
Rich
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