Re: uniq -c outputs SPACES NUMBER TAB LINE

Jim Meyering <[email protected]> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:51:48 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.gnu.textutils.bugs
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Clement Wang <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.
...
> uniq (textutils) 2.0.14

Thank you for reporting that bug.  POSIX requires a space.
It is present even in the latest coreutils release,

  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.0.1.tar.bz2
  (coreutils is the union of fileutils, textutils, and sh-utils)

but I've just fixed it for the next test release.