Re: qsh stdout difference per IBM i

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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