ls suddenly changed behavior

[Agvaniot]

i liked the default sorting of ls but now when i use ls i get the content sorted as a list
( have no idea how this come to be everything looks good in .bashrc )
anyway is there any thoughts of getting it back to normal?

[cronoik]

It will help you a lot to get answers when you tell us how it was before and how it is now. Also if you have done any upgrade in the meantime.

[Agvaniot]

It will help you a lot to get answers when you tell us how it was before and how it now. Also if you have done any upgrade in the meantime.

for example the ls that was before :

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ls
[b]directory1  directory2  directory3  directory4
directory 5[/b]

the current ls (which i dont like)

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ls
directory1
directory2
directory3
...

yes i done apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
after weeks i didnt do

[cronoik]

Are you piping the output or are you using a terminal? Do you use stretch now?
Please run:

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type ls

[Agvaniot]

Are you piping the output or are you using a terminal? Do you use stretch now?
Please run:

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type ls

debian 9 stretch
ls is aliased to ls --auto color

[cronoik]

Are you piping the output or are you using a terminal?

? I'm asking this question because the beheaviour of ls differs depending on the output application. See the documentation of ls:

...If standard output is a terminal, the output is in columns (sorted vertically) and control characters are output as question marks; otherwise, the output is listed one per line and control characters are output as-is....

How does the output of ls looks when you run it in xterm?

[Agvaniot]

Are you piping the output or are you using a terminal?

? I'm asking this question because the beheaviour of ls differs depending on the output application. See the documentation of ls:

...If standard output is a terminal, the output is in columns (sorted vertically) and control characters are output as question marks; otherwise, the output is listed one per line and control characters are output as-is....

How does the output of ls looks when you run it in xterm?

in Xterm the same problem..
im not piping the command to anything just launching "ls"

[Agvaniot]

anyone?

[RU55EL]

You could alias ls to ls -C by adding:

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alias ls='ls -C --color=auto'

to ~/.bash_aliases.



Then

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source ~/.bash_aliases

to update your system to your new ~/.bash_aliases file without rebooting.

That should give you standard column listings from ls.



or, assuming it is aliased in your ~./bashrc file, you could add the -C to the alias entry there. Then run

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source ~/.bashrc