Re: qsh stdout difference per IBM i

[Jay Vaughn <jeffersonvaughn@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the input on this. 
I’ll go try these out and see what will work for me. 

Thanks!


> On Apr 15, 2022, at 6:57 PM, Scott Klement <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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
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