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bug#9116: Bug in unexpand --all of <spaces><tab>
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Hallvard B Furuseth |
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bug#9116: Bug in unexpand --all of <spaces><tab> |
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Tue, 19 Jul 2011 12:42:22 +0200 |
Pádraig Brady writes:
>On 19/07/11 08:13, Hallvard B Furuseth wrote:
>> Coreutils 5.12 gets that right in my test:
>> 1st output line is "1234567<space><tab>1".
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> That's incorrect according to POSIX.
> The space should be converted to tab as
> it's followed by a blank.
Duh, sorry. I read "...immediately preceding a tab stop"
as "...immediately preceding a <tab>".
The manpage about this is wrong too:
"-a, --all convert all blanks, instead of just initial blanks"
No, not single spaces that happen to be just before a tab stop.
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Hallvard