derxen Posted February 17, 2007 Report Share Posted February 17, 2007 (edited) Hello, I hope someone can help with this. I've made a little bash-script for use on my pda (which runs familiar/gpe). Part of the script is a 'select' routine, for picking files from a directory. The select command sends its output to stderr, so it ends up on the screen. When the file names are not too long, it displays the entries in two columns. This works fine on my pc, but the screen on the pda is narrow, so when the file names are short and the entries are displayed in two columns, the ones in the right column get wrapped into the left column. Does anyone know of a way to avoid this? thanks derxen Edited February 17, 2007 by derxen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
derxen Posted February 17, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 17, 2007 I shouldn't ask stupid questions. Adding 'export COLUMNS=40' to the script did the trick. sorry derxen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted February 17, 2007 Report Share Posted February 17, 2007 (edited) just out of interest, what PDA do you have? I'm looking at PDA's and would love something linux based. Edited February 17, 2007 by iphitus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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