X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Matthew Woehlke Subject: Re: grep and exact matches help.. Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2007 17:28:17 -0500 Lines: 13 Message-ID: References: <20070403220528 DOT GA12449 AT suncomp1 DOT spk DOT agilent DOT com> <297343D29C14AA4D822142893ABEAEF302F44AC1 AT srv1163ex1 DOT flightsafety DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.10) Gecko/20070221 Thunderbird/1.5.0.10 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 In-Reply-To: <297343D29C14AA4D822142893ABEAEF302F44AC1@srv1163ex1.flightsafety.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Thrall, Bryan wrote: > Gary Johnson wrote on Tuesday, April 03, 2007 5:05 PM: >> If you're piping 'ls' into another command, the -1 isn't necessary. >> 'ls' detects that its stdout is not a tty and delivers single-column >> output automatically. > > Not when you use 'ls -l': Sure it does. There is still only one file per line. :-) -- Matthew Obscurity: +5 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/