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bug#25553: How many coreutils rely on tabs to align things (other, than


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: bug#25553: How many coreutils rely on tabs to align things (other, than 'du'?
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 14:26:05 -0800
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L A Walsh wrote:
Are there other utils that rely on tabs to align
output as much as 'du'?

Sure. 'ls', 'fmt', 'cut', 'cat', 'pr',....

What would be objections to fixing 'du' or others
that rely on such?

It would depend on the proposed change.





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