[ILUG] Why does each filename from ls have a newline?

[hmoreau at digiserve.ie]

On 19 Dec, Dermot McGahon wrote:
> 
> but I don't understand why the output is presented column across using
> bash and an xterm, when there are embedded newlines? How does this
> work?
> 

There are no embedded newlines.  ls detects that it's writing to a tty,
probably using isatty(fileno(stdout)), and columnizes its output in that
case.

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--harry