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Old 01-17-2014
[Solved] Weird 'ls -l' output

Hello folks,

I've found an HP-UX server with a rare 'ls -l' output. Please see the attached file.
Anybody knows how can I change the output to not have this extra tabulations?

Thanks in advance!
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# 2  
Old 01-17-2014
Have you got an alias for ls set perhaps or something for colwitdh, tabs etc? Hace a look at the output for alias and set
This might give you a quick hit, but no guarantees.



Robin
# 3  
Old 01-17-2014
No, there's no alias for ls. I'm avoiding this calling directly /bin/ls -l (with the same result)
Neither have such variables for cols or tabs I guess. See a piece of the set result:
Code:
COLUMNS=207
EDITOR=vi
ERRNO=0
FCEDIT=/usr/bin/ed
HISTFILE=/.sh_history
HOME=/
IFS='
'

Thanks anyway.

Last edited by Scott; 01-17-2014 at 08:25 AM.. Reason: Code tags...
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Old 01-17-2014
What OS ( release...), architecture are you on ?
# 5  
Old 01-17-2014
HP-UX B.11.31 U ia64
# 6  
Old 01-17-2014
Uhh dont have one of those... but lets try to understand, what terminal emulationare you using, anything in the output of stty that could give us a clue?

ah wait what is that IFS value????
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Old 01-17-2014
unset it and try!
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