Re: qsh stdout difference per IBM i

[Scott Klement <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jay,

I was thinking along the same lines as Jack...  you've probably got a 
different version of 'ls' in your PATH or something.

I also notice that your 2nd example includes the full path vs. just the 
file name, which also seems to indicate you are picking up a different 
version of ls.

The default mode in 'ls' is actually to print multiple files per line. 
If you want just one per line, most 'ls' utilities have a -1 (that's the 
number 1) switch that can be passed that means "one per line".

So try it like this:

qsh cmd('cd /home/jvaughn/.ssh && ls -1A')

Since it's listing the current directory, it's less likely to give you 
the paths.  And the -1 explicitly tells it to only include one per line. 
 (-1A is -1=one per line, and -A=include hidden files.)

Also, FWIW, I don't recommend using OVRDBF FILE(STDOUT) in a production 
program.  It's fine for a one-off or just messing around, but... if it's 
a "real" program, consider piping the output to Rfile to write it to a 
PF, or use a redirect to write it to a stream file.

-SK


On 4/15/2022 1:55 PM, Jay Vaughn wrote:
> I'm trying to figure out why 2 different IBM i's produce different stdout
> outputs...
>
> system1
> OVRDBF FILE(STDOUT) TOFILE(QTEMP/DIRLIST)
>         OVRSCOPE(*JOB)
>         OPNSCOPE(*JOB)
>
>   qsh cmd('ls -A /home/jvaughn/.ssh')
>
>    SRCSEQ    SRCDAT   SRCDTA
>       .00         0   xyz_rsa_prv
>       .00         0   xyz_rsa_pub
>       .00         0   abc_rsa_prv
>       .00         0   abc_S_rsa_pub
> ********  End of data  ********
>
> output nicely per row in qtemp/dirlist
>
> system 2
> same steps above but...
>
>     SRCSEQ    SRCDAT   SRCDTA
>
>        .00         0   /home/jvaughn/.ssh/STOREPORT_rsa_pub
>   /home/jvaughn/.ssh/i
>        .00         0   /home/jvaughn/.ssh/id_rsa
> /home/jvaughn/.ssh/known_h
>   ********  End of data  ********
>
> 2 files per row instead of 1...
>
> tia
>
> Jay