Package: coreutils Version: 8.32-4+b1 Version: 9.1-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
POSIX says (lines 1003.1-202x/D3): -- >8 -- 110789 −s[char] Separate text columns by the single character char instead of by the appropriate 110790 number of <space> characters (default for char shall be <tab>). 110817 LC_CTYPE Determine the locale for the interpretation of sequences of bytes of text data as 110818 characters (for example, single-byte as opposed to multi-byte characters in 110819 arguments and input files) and which characters are defined as printable (character 110820 class print). Non-printable characters are still written to standard output, but are 110821 not counted for the purpose for column-width and line-length calculations. -- >8 -- So how does this map onto -- >8 -- % pr -w22 -2 -s | cat -As abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789 abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789 $ 2023-05-05 03:16 Page 1$ $ abcdefghijkabcdefghijk$ $ % pr -w22 -2 -s' ' | cat -As abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789 abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789 $ 2023-05-05 03:16 Page 1$ $ abcdefghij abcdefghij$ $ -- >8 -- (that's a literal tab in the second one). Not only ought these to be the same, in the first one the separator is lost, and in the second it's turned into a space. The correct output for both is, naturally, abcdefghijk^Iabcdefghijk$ Oddly, specifying -sQ behaves as expected. Best, наб -- System Information: Debian Release: 12.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: x32 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: amd64, i386 Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages coreutils depends on: ii libacl1 2.3.1-3 ii libattr1 1:2.5.1-4 ii libc6 2.36-9 ii libgmp10 2:6.2.1+dfsg1-1.1 ii libselinux1 3.4-1+b5 coreutils recommends no packages. coreutils suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
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