Package: bsdmainutils
Version: 9.0.5
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
I really like the column command.
I humbly suggest improving it to work
with longer lines.
Here's a simple example that elicits the bug for
me
$ ( for i in {1..205} ; do echo -n 123456789, ; done ; echo ) | column -t
-s "," | most
column: line too long
I checked column.c.
It defines MAXLINELEN as 2048 + 1.
2048 seems a little outdated to me.
We live in the era of "big data" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_data).
I humbly suggest
1.) increasing MAXLINELEN to a megabyte,
2.) recompile,
3.) try it and
4.) see what happens.
Thanks,
Kingsley
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Architecture: i386 (i686)
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Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages bsdmainutils depends on:
ii bsdutils 1:2.20.1-5.5
ii debianutils 4.4
ii libc6 2.17-97
ii libncurses5 5.9-1
ii libtinfo5 5.9+20130608-1
bsdmainutils recommends no packages.
Versions of packages bsdmainutils suggests:
ii cpp 4:4.6.1-2
ii miscfiles [wordlist] 1.4.2.dfsg.1-9.1
pn vacation <none>
ii wamerican [wordlist] 7.1-1
ii wfrench [wordlist] 1.2.3-10
ii whois 5.0.26
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