Re: psychiatric help

On 2026-04-07 16:57, Aaron Schrab wrote:
> At 11:18 -0700 05 Apr 2026, Ray Andrews <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 2026-04-05 10:39, Mark J. Reed wrote:
>>>>
>>> If its output is not going to a terminal, you get the "polite" 
>>> behavior that outputs one filename per line. Any time you're doing 
>>> `ls |` or `$(ls)` or `<(ls)`, the output is not going to a terminal, 
>>> so you get the one-per-line behavior.
>> So if 'ls' is called within a function that counts as 'not a 
>> terminal'?  Man ... so easy to draw the wrong conclusion.  As above, 
>> I thought it was the array causing that.
>
> No. Unless the function definition directs the output elsewhere, the 
> output of ls (or any other command) in a function goes wherever the 
> output of the function goes.
>
> If you're starting from a terminal there can be essentially unlimited 
> levels of scripts or other commands, aliases, or functions between the 
> terminal and the ls execution with the output still going to a 
> terminal as long as nothing directed the output to go somewhere else.
Thanks, I have a talent for drawing the wrong conclusion.