Script help

Dennis Kaptain dkaptain at yahoo.com.mx
Fri Sep 19 22:25:00 UTC 2008


> > ls -t by itself may give you more than one filename per line. 

> > Use ls -t1
> > that will assure you get only one file name output from head.
> 
> 
> Single-column output is automatically selected any time that the output
> of ls is redirected to anything which is not a tty, so the -1 option is
> not required. Comparing the output of 'ls' to the output of 'ls|cat'
> will demonstrate this feature at work.
> 
> -Chris

This is why I love being on this list. There is ALWAYS more to learn.
Thanks Chris

Dennis K


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