> Why do you think it's a bug? I imagine the insertion of leading spaces was deliberate, but I refer to it as bug because it has already been registered as such in your bug tracker, and also for the following reasons.
- It appears to be undocumented (I checked both, man and info pages). - It appears to violate susv3 (<http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/uniq.html>) which clearly states: If the -c option is specified, the output file shall be empty or each line shall be of the form: "%d %s", <number of duplicates>, <line> - It breaks other commands, for example: This should work: cat textfile | sort | uniq -c | cut -d " " -f 2- But instead the leading spaces must first be removed: cat textfile | sort | uniq -c | sed 's/^[ \t]*//' | cut -d " " -f 2- > Please reply not to me directly, but rather to the > [email protected] mailing list. By the way, I replied using the button on the website <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-textutils/2003-07/msg00013.html> (so, you may want to change that address). Please confirm that this message has been received. Thanks, Leif _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
