Hallo Rob! > Why do we have unnecessary leading whitespace? What happend to small and > simple and doing no more than absolutely necessary?
As far as I remember the original (K&R) behavior of wc was always to produce leading whitespace (fixed format output). Only the newer versions of gnu wc striped of this leading whitespace. That lead to several shell script failures that had to be fixed during the last years. Harald _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list busybox@busybox.net http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
