Pádraig Brady writes: >On 19/07/11 08:13, Hallvard B Furuseth wrote: >> Coreutils 5.12 gets that right in my test: >> 1st output line is "1234567<space><tab>1". > > That's incorrect according to POSIX. > The space should be converted to tab as > it's followed by a blank.
Duh, sorry. I read "...immediately preceding a tab stop" as "...immediately preceding a <tab>". The manpage about this is wrong too: "-a, --all convert all blanks, instead of just initial blanks" No, not single spaces that happen to be just before a tab stop. -- Hallvard
