Hello Mark,
First,
thank you for taking the time and effort
to test our development snapshot, and reporting results back.
This kind of feedback is critical in getting multibyte support ready.
Second,
I can confirm the behavior you are observing, reproduced here
with 'od' for easier output:
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On 12/08/2017 11:38 AM, chadweis...@nym.hush.com wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am using coreutils version 8.27 on Fedora, and I don't see this fixed in
> 8.28's NEWS.
>
> $ seq 1 --help
> seq: invalid floating point argument: ‘--help’
> Try 'seq --help' for more information.
Interesting bug!
>
> We s
Hello,
I am using coreutils version 8.27 on Fedora, and I don't see this fixed in
8.28's NEWS.
$ seq 1 --help
seq: invalid floating point argument: ‘--help’
Try 'seq --help' for more information.
We should be able to put the options anywhere and not necessarily before any
arguments. And even
Dear Assaf,
the reason for the unexpected behavior of 'fold', namely that specifying
--bytes doesn't make it count bytes, is evident after a look at the source
code.
When --bytes is not specified, the program treats '\b', '\r' and '\t'
specially. It assumes a tab width of eight (compile-time
