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Interesting that a major GNU util (ls) does exactly the opposite and prints differently (multiple entries on a line vs one line per entry) in terminal vs a pipe
by ElevenLathe 5y ago
Interesting that a major GNU util (ls) does exactly the opposite and prints differently (multiple entries on a line vs one line per entry) in terminal vs a pipe.
- teddyh 5y agoThe last paragraph I quoted explicitly mentions ls as doing that for compatibility reasons; i.e. Unix did it that way, and GNU should be compatible.