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   JP Mens (jpmens@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 12-Nov-2022 00:29:01 JST JP Mens

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   @edavies

   thanks, I am aware of that.

   I feared that if the person asking the question tried the `ls' without the `-1' they wouldn't understand what I am talking about.

   I sometimes _try_ and make things easier to understand. :)

   @bigMouthCommie

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     Ed Davies (edavies@octodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 12-Nov-2022 00:29:07 JST Ed Davies

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     @jpmens You don't need the -1, it's ls's default if the output isn't going to a terminal. E.g, `ls | less`.

     It's not in the man page which is a bit surprising, I thought I'd read it there. Did wonder if it was GNU-specific but then I thought, huh, if it wasn't going to a terminal how would it query for the page width to decide how many columns to use?

     @bigMouthCommie

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     JP Mens (jpmens@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 12-Nov-2022 00:29:09 JST JP Mens

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     @bigMouthCommie any list of words/lines produced in a shell, become comma-separated.

     Just try it:

     $ ls -1 | paste -sd "," -

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     I don't understand. can you show me example texts?

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     JP Mens (jpmens@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 12-Nov-2022 00:29:12 JST JP Mens

     comma-separated list of anything in a #Unix shell:

     ... | paste -sd "," -

     e.g.:

     cut -d: -f1 /etc/passwd | paste -sd "," -

     #Unix #quickies