Thomas Rast <trast@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html