Subject: bug#25388: Bug in ls, kills existing scripts reading "ls" -1 as input

From: L A Walsh <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2017 10:48:39 -0800

Paul Eggert wrote:
> L A Walsh wrote:
> 
>>     Having 'ls' show different output through a pager
>> than it does when scrolling off the screen is not a standard
>> feature
> 
> Sure it is. 'ls' has done that since then 1980s. 'ls' shows multicolumn 
> output when the output is a tty, and single-column output when piped 
> into a pager.
> 
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	That's not what I'm used to:

Ishtar:/tmp/tmp> ls
12345678                     a.exe*        cccccccccccc.tar  ssh-3LKwkRvOQM/
UiGUI_log_20161216-1442.htm  bbbbbbbbb.gz  ddddddddddddddd   tall/
Ishtar:/tmp/tmp> ls |more        
12345678                     a.exe*        cccccccccccc.tar  ssh-3LKwkRvOQM/
UiGUI_log_20161216-1442.htm  bbbbbbbbb.gz  ddddddddddddddd   tall/
Ishtar:/tmp/tmp> ls >../tmpdir.txt
Ishtar:/tmp/tmp> wc ../tmpdir.txt
  2   8 235 ../tmpdir.txt

i.e. they look the same either way -- even down to the same
colors (attaching tmpdir.txt which should display as above
but with color)... depends on your LS_COLOR settings... 
Will include that here (very long line):

export LS_COLORS='*~=01;30:*.bak=01;30:*.orig=01;30:no=00:fi=00:di=01;35:ln=01;36:pi=40;33:so=04;01;34:do=04;01;34:bd=40;33;01:cd=40;33;01:or=41;33;01:su=01;04;36:sg=01;04;35:ca=01;04;36:tw=30;42:ow=34;42:st=37;44:ex=00;32:*.tar=01;31:*.tgz=01;31:*.arj=01;31:*.taz=01;31:*.lzh=01;31:*.lzma=01;31:*.tlz=01;31:*.txz=01;31:*.tlzma=01;31:*.zip=01;31:*.z=01;31:*.Z=01;31:*.dz=01;31:*.gz=01;31:*.lz=01;31:*.xz=01;31:*.bz2=01;31:*.bz=01;31:*.tbz=01;31:*.tbz2=01;31:*.tz=01;31:*.deb=01;31:*.rpm=01;31:*.jar=01;31:*.war=01;31:*.ear=01;31:*.sar=01;31:*.rar=01;31:*.ace=01;31:*.zoo=01;31:*.cpio=01;31:*.7z=01;31:*.rz=01;31:*.rpm*=01\:30:*.jpg=01;35:*.jpeg=01;35:*.gif=01;35:*.bmp=01;35:*.pbm=01;35:*.pgm=01;35:*.ppm=01;35:*.tga=01;35:*.xbm=01;35:*.xpm=01;35:*.tif=01;35:*.tiff=01;35:*.png=01;35:*.svg=01;35:*.svgz=01;35:*.mng=01;35:*.pcx=01;35:*.mov=01;35:*.mpg=01;35:*.mpeg=01;35:*.m2v=01;35:*.mkv=01;35:*.webm=01;35:*.ogm=01;35:*.mp4=01;35:*.m4v=01;35:*.mp4v=01;35:*.vob=01;35:*.qt=01;35:*.nuv=01;3
5:*.wmv=01;35:*.asf=01;35:*.rm=01;35:*.rmvb=01;35:*.flc=01;35:*.avi=01;35:*.fli=01;35:*.flv=01;35:*.gl=01;35:*.dl=01;35:*.xcf=01;35:*.xwd=01;35:*.yuv=01;35:*.cgm=01;35:*.emf=01;35:*.axv=01;35:*.anx=01;35:*.ogv=01;35:*.ogx=01;35:*.aac=00;36:*.au=00;36:*.flac=00;36:*.mid=00;36:*.midi=00;36:*.mka=00;36:*.mp3=00;36:*.mpc=00;36:*.ogg=00;36:*.ra=00;36:*.wav=00;36:*.axa=00;36:*.oga=00;36:*.spx=00;36:*.xspf=00;36:'

ls alias on my machines:
alias ls='ls -CF --show-control-chars --color=always'
[0m[00m12345678[0m                     [00;32ma.exe[0m*        [01;31mcccccccccccc.tar[0m  [01;35mssh-3LKwkRvOQM[0m/
[00mUiGUI_log_20161216-1442.htm[0m  [01;31mbbbbbbbbb.gz[0m  [00mddddddddddddddd[0m   [30;42mtall[0m/