bug#20120: wc output padding differs when "-" is in the file list

[Assaf Gordon]

tags 20120 wontfix
close 20120
stop

(triaging old bugs)

On 19/03/15 04:38 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 18/03/15 17:54, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> > On 03/16/2015 06:42 AM, Eric Mrak wrote:
> > > It seems that whenever STDIN is involved the results padding
> > > reverts to the BSD-style 7/8 padding. 
> >
> > Thanks for the report.
> > This effect is there at least since the last bigger change in
> > this area, the introduction of the function compute_number_width(),
> > back in 2003.
>
> The existing padding is only a nicety.
> If I was going to change anything, I'd add field selection and left/right
> alignment support to column(1).

Given the above, and without further comments in 3 years,
I'm closing this bug.

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-assaf