GNU bug report logs - #29802
"uniq -c" doesn't like counting lines with nulls

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: "PD" <bug-bash.gnu.org <at> pkts.ca>

Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2017 16:29:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: moreinfo

Done: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>
To: 29802 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#29802: "uniq -c" doesn't like counting lines with nulls
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2018 20:20:38 -0600

tags 29802 moreinfo
close 29802
stop

(triaging old bugs)

On 2017-12-21 9:33 a.m., Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 21/12/17 08:40, PD wrote:
>> # printf "\n\x00\n\x00\n" | uniq -c | cat -e
>>        1 $
>>        1 ^@$
>>        1 ^@$
> 
> Not reproducible on recent versions.
> Might this have been specific to the i18n patch?
> I.E. can you reproduce with LC_ALL=C set in the env?
> 

With no further comments in almost a year, I'm closing this bug.
Discussion can continue by replying to this thread.

-assaf
This bug report was last modified 6 years and 207 days ago.

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