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bug#9346: wc does not conform to POSIX (additional spaces)
From: |
Vincent Lefevre |
Subject: |
bug#9346: wc does not conform to POSIX (additional spaces) |
Date: |
Tue, 23 Aug 2011 02:39:09 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Mutt/1.5.21-6194-vl-r44775 (2011-07-13) |
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/wc.html
says:
STDOUT
By default, the standard output shall contain an entry for each
input file of the form:
"%d %d %d %s\n", <newlines>, <words>, <bytes>, <file>
But wc from GNU coreutils 8.12 adds spaces:
$ echo | wc
1 0 1
Setting POSIXLY_CORRECT=1 doesn't even have any effect here.
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