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From: | Assaf Gordon |
Subject: | bug#20120: wc output padding differs when "-" is in the file list |
Date: | Mon, 22 Oct 2018 20:01:07 -0600 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 |
tags 20120 wontfix close 20120 stop (triaging old bugs) On 19/03/15 04:38 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
On 18/03/15 17:54, Bernhard Voelker wrote:On 03/16/2015 06:42 AM, Eric Mrak wrote:It seems that whenever STDIN is involved the results paddingreverts to the BSD-style 7/8 padding.Thanks for the report. This effect is there at least since the last bigger change in this area, the introduction of the function compute_number_width(), back in 2003.
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The existing padding is only a nicety. If I was going to change anything, I'd add field selection and left/right alignment support to column(1).
Given the above, and without further comments in 3 years, I'm closing this bug. Discussion can continue by replying to this thread. -assaf
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