On Mon, Aug 01, 2022 at 12:25:21PM +0100, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Aug 2022 at 09:24, Stefan Schulze Frielinghaus wrote:
> > I gave unexpand from GNU coreutils 8.32 a try. Looks like it cannot
> > deal with form feeds or maybe I'm missing something?
> >
> > $ bash -c "printf 'foo\n\f\n bar\n'" | unexpand -
> > foo
> > unexpand: input line is too long
>
> Which linux distro are you using? I see this error on Fedora and
> Centos 8 but not on recent Debian or Ubuntu systems.
I can reproduce this on Fedora {33,34,35} and on Ubuntu 20.04 it seems
to work.
