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Re: using menu in debian 1.3.1?



On Aug 9, Joey Hess wrote
> joost witteveen wrote:
> > rulcmc:/usr/lib/menu$ ls |wc
> >      75      75     519
> 
> Unless you have ls aliased to ls -l or something, that's not a very
> accurate number. ;-)

Bzzt. Wrong answer. You don't win the laundromat. :-)

GNU ls checks whether or not it is outputting directly to a tty; observe the
difference between "ls" (multi-column output) and "ls | more" (single column
output).

Ray
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