"Bryce Nesbitt" <bryce2@obviously.com> writes:
> Unless they are in the habit of doing:
>
> # COLUMNS=$COLUMNS ls -C |cat
Some of us are actually in the habit of doing that because it's easier to use
the standard interface than remembering the different command-line option for
each command. I quite often do precisely that with dpkg, for example.
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