Re: unexpand

[Soeren M Soerries]

Hello Bob,

thank your for the quick answer and the test example.

address@hidden (Bob Proulx) schreibt:
> Soeren M Soerries <address@hidden> [2002-07-30 10:36:40 +0200]:
> > "unexpand -t8" works fine. That's supposed to be the
> > default, but without the "-t" switch it doesn't work
> > at all. Funny, isn't it?

> Thanks for your report.  But I am unable to recreate your problem.
> See the included test cases.  What do these commands do for you?

>   type unexpand
>   unexpand is /usr/bin/unexpand
>   echo "        " | unexpand | od -c
>   0000000  \t  \n
>   echo "        " | env -i unexpand | od -c
>   0000000  \t  \n

they work, just the same. So it seems unexpand is ok?
Try another one. My /etc/fstab holds tab-separated
values.

expand /etc/fstab > fstab.out # now spaces.
# (ok)

unexpand fstab.out > fstab.out.unexpd # still spaces :(
# bug.

unexpand -t8 fstab.out > fstab.out.unexpd # tabs again!
# (ok)

Cheers, Sören

> > address@hidden:~> unexpand --version
> > unexpand (GNU textutils) 2.0.10
> > Geschrieben von David MacKenzie.
> > 
> > Copyright (C) 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> > [...]
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