On 6/24/17 10:46 AM, Eduardo A. Bustamante López wrote: > I think this is an easier way to reproduce the problem. I have a terminal > window with the following dimensions: > > dualbus@debian:~$ declare -p COLUMNS LINES > declare -- COLUMNS="191" > declare -- LINES="49"
You haven't exported these. If you had, the subshell started to run the script would have the correct values. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/