From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Cc: Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com>,
Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: t0090-cache-tree fails due to wc whitespace
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 16:54:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2ehw7jgis.fsf@igel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201112141643.06656.trast@student.ethz.ch> (Thomas Rast's message of "Wed, 14 Dec 2011 16:43:06 +0100")
Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> writes:
> (Oddly, according to 'man 1p wc' here, the POSIXly correct format in
> the absence of options is
>
> "%d %d %d %s\n", <newlines>, <words>, <bytes>, <file>
>
> Taking it literally would mean no padding/alignment whatsoever.
> Neither GNU wc on my Linux exactly conforms to this.)
A space in the format string stands for one or more <blank>s. If only a
single <space> is allowed the standard uses 𝚫.
Andreas.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-14 15:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-14 14:35 t0090-cache-tree fails due to wc whitespace Brian Gernhardt
2011-12-14 14:57 ` Stefano Lattarini
2011-12-14 15:09 ` Hallvard Breien Furuseth
2011-12-14 15:41 ` Johannes Sixt
2011-12-20 8:24 ` [PATCH] t0090: be prepared that 'wc -l' writes leading blanks Johannes Sixt
2011-12-20 9:17 ` Thomas Rast
2011-12-14 15:43 ` t0090-cache-tree fails due to wc whitespace Thomas Rast
2011-12-14 15:54 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
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