My new USRobotics Sportster Voice 56K Faxmodem

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Joseph Kwok wrote:
> 
> No ls option is being used.  I tried the above shell commands by hand and get the
> result that all ls files are in one line and thus I have to count on the number of
> words instead.

Joseph, ls works different when the output is redirected into a pipe.  Try
this:

ls | less

Do you still get all files in a single line?  You shouldn't.


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Chuck Martin                                       <cmartin@bigfoot.com>
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