On 03 April 2007 23:28, Matthew Woehlke wrote: > 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. :-)
It's about getting rid of the perms and datestamp of course. Like I said in my original post that everybody snipped... cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- 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/