Re: weird echo behaviour...

[Paul Jarc]

"Alfred M. Szmidt" <address@hidden> wrote:
>    Command substitution works by the shell creating a pipe to capture
>    the output; when ls sees that it is writing to a pipe, it defaults
>    to -1 instead of -C.
>
> Urgh, thanks for the explanation.  I suppose this can't be changed
> right?  Cause I think it is a annoying behaviour...

It's useful in cases like "ls | grep", etc.  SUSv3 requires the
default to be -1 except for ttys.  You can always squash the
whitespace if you want, with var=`echo $var`.


paul