Minor nitpicking: On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 09:20:03AM +0300, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: > ls -l --show-control-chars | od -tx1 > (you can also try '| od -c') and try to see if they are real blanks? > (ls -1 (1 and not l) | ...
One file per line (as in with the option -1) is the default output format of ls when the output is not a terminal device (e.g: when the output is redirected to a normal file or a pipe) -- Tzafrir Cohen +---------------------------+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------+ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]