GNU bug report logs - #9346
wc does not conform to POSIX (additional spaces)

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Vincent Lefevre <vincent <at> vinc17.net>

Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 00:42:01 UTC

Severity: normal

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Vincent Lefevre <vincent <at> vinc17.net>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: wc does not conform to POSIX (additional spaces)
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 02:39:09 +0200

http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/wc.html
says:

  STDOUT

    By default, the standard output shall contain an entry for each
    input file of the form:

    "%d %d %d %s\n", <newlines>, <words>, <bytes>, <file>

But wc from GNU coreutils 8.12 adds spaces:

$ echo | wc
      1       0       1

Setting POSIXLY_CORRECT=1 doesn't even have any effect here.

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