On 15 February 2015 at 16:50, <[email protected]> wrote: > You can trust the value of COLUMNS. I think this is the correct way > programs must detect the size of the terminal.
Unfortunately, this is the first thing I tried - and I found that the variable isn't actually exported. So short of running export COLUMNS; ls -C; This wouldn't work - cheers though, life would be more convenient if it were! -- Tai Chi Minh Ralph Eastwood [email protected]
