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Re: grep and exact matches help..

Thrall, Bryan wrote:
Gary Johnson wrote on Tuesday, April 03, 2007 5:05 PM: 
If you're piping 'ls' into another command, the -1 isn't necessary.
'ls' detects that its stdout is not a tty and delivers single-column
output automatically.

Not when you use 'ls -l':

Sure it does. There is still only one file per line. :-)

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Matthew
Obscurity: +5


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