/bin/ls -C Question
John Owens
jso at edison.UUCP
Sat Feb 22 00:26:46 AEST 1986
> Why does ls -C Sometimes NOT print across the screen?
> [...] What does
> ls make this decision on? I have seen this behavior on both at&t 3b2
> machines and on Tandy 6000 machines. (sys V on one Xenix 3 on the latter)
> Any thoughts???
Check what's in your PATH ("echo $PATH"). Look in each of those directories
for the "ls" command. Chances are you have more than one....
Often "/bin/ls" is an old V7-like ls command, which always lists one per
line, while another ls, earlier in your path, has the -C option.
Does this "sometimes" happen when your current directory is /bin?
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