Re: [ILUG] A little grep mystery

From: kevin lyda (kevin at domain ie.suberic.net)
Date: Tue 04 Jun 2002 - 18:50:42 IST

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On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 05:58:33PM +0100, Niall O Broin wrote:
> COLUMNS was set automatically on login from my terminal dimensions. So how
> does one explain the behaviour above ?

what does:

sh -c 'echo $COLUMNS'

say. in other words, did you do export COLUMNS ?

kevin

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