From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:54:03 GMT
Subject: Re: t0090-cache-tree fails due to wc whitespace
Message-ID: <m2ehw7jgis.fsf@igel.home>
In-Reply-To: <201112141643.06656.trast@student.ethz.ch>

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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