On Tuesday 09 March 2010 01:55, Harald Becker wrote: > 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.
... and now we have script failures because _new_ scripts expect _new_ output format >>:( "Progress" sometimes looks like pointless churn. -- vda _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list busybox@busybox.net http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
