Re: /bin/ls is impure!
On 19.09.2001, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Norbert Veber wrote:
>
> > Interesting. How did you obtain the environment dump?
>
> "set", with no arguments. May be a bashism, though. Not sure.
I used the env program.
~$ env --version
env (GNU sh-utils) 2.0.11
~$ env|grep SHELL
SHELL=/bin/bash
~$ env|grep COLUMNS
COLUMNS=169
~$ purity > /dev/null
~$ env|grep COLUMNS
COLUMNS=49151
On 20.09.2001, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Previously Pekka Lampila wrote:
> > Actually it's not.
>·
> Actually it is, your shell probably just sets COLUMNS dynamically instead of
> using it as a normal environment vairable.
Well, I have to believe my eyes. I surely did not resize xterm to 49151
columns (or anything else for that matter) :)
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