Subject: Re: t0090-cache-tree fails due to wc whitespace

From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 16:54:03 +0100

Thomas Rast <[email-masked]> 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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