uniq -c outputs SPACES NUMBER TAB LINE

Clement Wang <[email protected]> Thu, 17 Jul 2003 16:35:10 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.textutils.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
echo foo |uniq -c

outputs:
      1\tfoo

however, it seems like on other unix systems (e.g. tru64) uniq -c output
a space instead of a tab.


i'm running version:

uniq --version
uniq (textutils) 2.0.14


at least the online documentation should say that this is so.