Re: pr: leading zeros omitted with certain arguments to the -n option

[Pádraig Brady]

On 10/24/2012 10:12 AM, Ondrej Oprala wrote:
> Hi,
> we've had a bug report from one of our customers recently, saying
> pr -nNUM doesn't zero-pad line numbers on output with certain
> values of NUM (for example 1-11, 13-14, 16-17...). The problem
> seems to be the faulty format string that I fixed in the patch
> attached. I've also added 2 test cases in tests/misc/pr.pl to
> exercise the output with problematic as well as ok NUM values.

I think the leading zeros is the inconsistent case.
I also checked solaris and netbsd and they pad with spaces.
So my previous patch to handle arbitrary -n should suffice.

thanks,
Pádraig.