* Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> [080426 09:44]:

> Why does the first 'ls' not honor columns while the second does? How
> does 'ls' detect that the COLUMNS=120 is somehow different from the
> default COLUMNS value?

I would hazard a guess that COLUMNS isn't "exported" from your
shell environment in the first case. In the other cases, the explicit:
VAR=... command
the shell is told to set VAR explicitly before starting command, in
addition to any exported vars.

a.

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