Subject: Re: bug#25553: How many coreutils rely on tabs to align things (other, than 'du'?

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 14:26:05 -0800

L A Walsh wrote:
> Are there other utils that rely on tabs to align
> output as much as 'du'?

Sure. 'ls', 'fmt', 'cut', 'cat', 'pr',....

> What would be objections to fixing 'du' or others
> that rely on such?

It would depend on the proposed change.