Mail Archives: cygwin/1999/02/25/17:25:48
Hi Jose,
it's not clear to me what you want!
You can force single column style with ls -1
and multi column with ls -x
according to the HP-UX man page.
Bye, Heribert (heribert_dahms AT icon-gmbh DOT de)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jose I. Cabrera [SMTP:jicman AT cinops DOT xerox DOT com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 25, 1999 20:02
> To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com
> Subject: ls and long file names
>
> When there is a file with a long name in a directory, the ls output
> defaults to one item per line. i.e.
>
> <13:57:44> <6>ls
> 10jobs.sh
> 1liner
> 3_5_5.xfc
> Add2files
> Addfile.txt
> CPBU_East_and_West_Phone_List_Updated_January_7.doc
> [Heribert] [snip]
>
> while if the files are small, you get:
>
> <13:42:19> <11>ls
> erotlk1298.xls w98-hp5si.prn w981.01.16-990223b.prn
> [Heribert] [snip]
>
> Does anyone have any kind of idea on how to fix this? I tried all
> kinds of switches and got no different result.
>
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