On 04/28/2015 09:44 AM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
Bernhard Voelker <[email protected]> writes:Reading POSIX [0] again because of bug#20442 [1], I think that GNU du is violating the spec: The output from du shall consist of the amount of space allocated to a file and the name of the file, in the following format: "%d %s\n", <size>, <pathname> Instead, GNU du uses "%d\t%s\n", i.e., a tab character as delimiter, even if POSIXLY_CORRECT is set. Do I read POSIX right?No, the space stands for any (positive) amount of white space. http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap05.html#tag_05
Great, even better. Thanks for the pointer. Have a nice day, Berny
