My new USRobotics Sportster Voice 56K Faxmodem

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> > 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.

Yes, you are correct, but the behaviour is different when it is assigned to an
environment variable:% ls | more
result multiple lines on screen but
% pages=`ls | more`
% echo $pages
result a single line.

Regards,
Joseph