Re: textutils-2.0: unexpand generates infinite output for 6 char input

[Jim Meyering]

Thanks for the report!
I've added a test for that bug.
It should be fixed in the next test release.

John Kodis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| Certain patterns of whitespace will cause unexpand to generate a
| continuous stream of spaces as output.  The following one-liner
| demonstrates the problem.
|
| $> echo -e '  \t\t ' | unexpand -t 2,17 | od -tx1
| 0000000 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20
| *
| ^C