bug#9023: pr command does not honor -f or --form-feed option

[Conklin,Paul W.]

I think that I have found a bug with the pr command

Version Info
pr 5.97                          October 2008                            PR(1)

root:address@hidden:/
# rpm -qa --filesbypkg | grep -w /usr/bin/pr
coreutils                 /usr/bin/pr
root:address@hidden:/
# rpm -q coreutils
coreutils-5.97-19.el5


test.txt is just a 66 line file with the numbers 1-66, one per line
pr -t -f -l33 -w80 test.txt > withf.txt
pr -t -l33 -w80 test.txt > withof.txt
diff withf.txt withof.txt

In AIX
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# pr -t -f -l33 -w80 test.txt > withf.txt
address@hidden:/>
# pr -t -l33 -w80 test.txt > withof.txt
address@hidden:/>
# diff withf.txt withof.txt
diff: 0653-827 Missing newline at the end of file withf.txt.
34c34
<
34
---
> 34
67d66
<

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# cat withf.txt | wc -c
     191
address@hidden:/>
# cat withof.txt | wc -c
     189

in LINUX
root:address@hidden:/
# pr -t -f -l33 -w80 test.txt > withf.txt
root:address@hidden:/
# pr -t -l33 -w80 test.txt > withof.txt
root:address@hidden:/
# diff withf.txt withof.txt
root:address@hidden:/
# cat withf.txt | wc -c
189
root:address@hidden:/
# cat withof.txt | wc -c
189
root:address@hidden:/


Paul W. Conklin | Sr Team Lead | Cerner Corporation | 816.201.7128 | Cell: 
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