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Re: spawn oddity [message #7042] Wed, 11 September 1996 00:00
Christian Soeller is currently offline  Christian Soeller
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teittine@sara.cc.utu.fi writes:

>
> If I give command 'ls -F .' under unix to the command promp, I get
> different output as I give the same command in a IDL-procedure
> 'spawn, "ls -F .", txtout'
> I suppose c-shell is used in the both cases. So, why the difference?
I guess the difference you are talking about is multicolumn versus
1 file per line (If not please ignore the following) ?

In that case it is due to the different defaults of
the ls output format depending on the output stream being associated
with a terminal or not. More info: unix> man ls ...

Regards,
Christian

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St. Georges Hospital Medical School Dept. of Pharmacology
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