Re: Two sequential help requests

[Eric Blake]

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According to Robert Carroll on 10/8/2008 8:30 PM:
> Hi, Eric-
> 
> Thanks for the reply.  After I wrote you something occurred to me.  I had
> been running the commands in an Ubuntu pseudo terminal.  As soon as I went
> to a tty the commands did not show the behavior I reported.  SO I feel
> certain this has nothing to do with the commands themselves but some quirk
> of the graphical terminal.  I thought about sending a second message, but I
> thought it might not reach the same person, leading to confusion.  It's
> unimportant at this point, but to clarify what was happening,  the first ls
> would provide its output and return to the prompt.  If I looked at the
> output I would see the command line followed by the output.  The second time
> I would type the command (unless there was an intervening "return"), as
> soon as I hit the "return" the command itself would disappear (as though a
> magic series of back spaces had been typed instantaneously) and no ls output
> would be given--I was just left at the prompt on the line where I had tried
> to issue the ls command.  It is very odd, but not a ls problem, and very
> easy to work around.  I think I had never issued two ls in a row, at least
> with Ubuntu in a pseudo terminal.

What shell are you using?  Do you have an alias or function defined for ls
(ie. what do 'which ls' and 'type ls' say)?  Are you typing 'ls --help' as
the command for both runs, which likely is longer than the number of lines
in your terminal?

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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