Quoth Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. at 14/10/09 23:12...
Your font has betrayed you. The single-column-mode option is "-1"
(dash-one), your messages says you tried the option "-l" (dash-ell) which
requested a
detailed (long) listing.
Aha! Sure looked like a lower-case L. Think I need to bump up the font size
for this little screen! Thank you for pointing that out.
Unfortunately, I still can't get the desired effect.
The ls -1 (#1) gives me my single-column list but piping it to sed '1,2d'
still gives me the entire directory listing, each item separated by a single
space. Can't see any reason from the sed manpage why this should be and can't
locate my awk & sed book (may have left it at last job.)