[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Jarc) writes: > "Bryce Nesbitt (mailing list account)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The "wc" command always seems to place leading spaces on all results, > > It doesn't for me, with 5.2.1. Upgrade?
Yes, the behavior changed in 5.1.0. wc still outputs leading spaces in some cases, to make the columns line up, but if you can assume coreutils 5.1.0 or later you can rely on "wc -l" to omit leading spaces when it is given zero operands or one operand. POSIX allows leading spaces, though, so you can't rely on this behavior in portable code. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
