Gregory Stark wrote:
> "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.
Yes, this is true, but it assume the application is not going to set
$COLUMNS itself, like psql does in interactive mode:
test=> \echo `echo $COLUMNS`127
$ sql -c '\echo `echo $COLUMNS`' test(empty)
Now, we could get fancy and honor $COLUMNS only in non-interactive mode,
but that seems confusing.
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