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ls command refuses to use multi-column
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<blockquote data-quote="ChaseER" data-source="post: 1285739" data-attributes="member: 212335"><p>I was having the same problem this morning, and did a search for an answer and ended up here... but while messing with it found out what was causing the problem... and from there you can decide how to fix it.</p><p></p><p>Pretty much this is what has caused this for me... in my home folder, there were a couple of saved URL's that had long TITLEs. The span on these, and other files, being very wide, made it so that when I did a multi column listing, it wasn't able to list more than one column because the long titles took up the span of available space. I figured this out by stretching the terminal window across the screen and doing the ls -aFG command. I noticed that there were some long items. I went into my home directory and took care of those long file names, and then going back to terminal, I was able to do the command, and then was able to achieve the desired results <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" />.</p><p></p><p>I think this is why it was working for you in other directories, because you're probably not saving long file named items there?</p><p></p><p>This is my first post to the forums, and I just signed up because I thought that this might be the answer to your problems <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> </p><p></p><p>Either way... Hello forums!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ChaseER, post: 1285739, member: 212335"] I was having the same problem this morning, and did a search for an answer and ended up here... but while messing with it found out what was causing the problem... and from there you can decide how to fix it. Pretty much this is what has caused this for me... in my home folder, there were a couple of saved URL's that had long TITLEs. The span on these, and other files, being very wide, made it so that when I did a multi column listing, it wasn't able to list more than one column because the long titles took up the span of available space. I figured this out by stretching the terminal window across the screen and doing the ls -aFG command. I noticed that there were some long items. I went into my home directory and took care of those long file names, and then going back to terminal, I was able to do the command, and then was able to achieve the desired results :D. I think this is why it was working for you in other directories, because you're probably not saving long file named items there? This is my first post to the forums, and I just signed up because I thought that this might be the answer to your problems :) Either way... Hello forums! [/QUOTE]
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