From 4f2a5e06da89913f789463fef919e61f9d8f5be6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Philipp Hagemeister <phihag@phihag.de>
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 23:28:30 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Use subprocess to call stty size when COLUMNS is not set

---
 youtube-dl | 11 ++++++-----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/youtube-dl b/youtube-dl
index 1ae68b2b5d..32bd99e98e 100755
--- a/youtube-dl
+++ b/youtube-dl
@@ -2996,11 +2996,12 @@ def parseOpts():
 		if columns:
 			return int(columns)
 
-		# TODO: Breaks on phihag's system
-		#if sys.platform.startswith('linux'):
-		#	try:
-		#		return os.popen('stty size', 'r').read().split()[1]
-		#	except: pass
+		try:
+			sp = subprocess.Popen(['stty', 'size'], stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
+			out,err = sp.communicate()
+			return out.split()[1]
+		except:
+			pass
 		return None
 
 	max_width = 80