GNU bug report logs - #9116
Bug in unexpand --all of <spaces><tab>

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth <at> usit.uio.no>

Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 12:43:03 UTC

Severity: normal

Fixed in version 8.13

Done: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth <at> usit.uio.no>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: Bug in unexpand --all of <spaces><tab>
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 13:18:20 +0200

Unexpand --all of <7 printables, 2-8 spaces, tab, word> loses a tab.

perl -lwe 'print 1234567, " " x $_, "\t$_" for (1..9)' | unexpand --all
-->
1234567 	1
1234567	2
1234567	3
1234567	4
1234567	5
1234567	6
1234567	7
1234567	8
1234567			9

Coreutils-8.12.  Old bug, has existed at least since version 6.8.

-- 
Hallvard
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