[ILUG] A little grep mystery

[kevin lyda]

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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