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Re: wc -l behaviour
From: -f (f
obiit.org)
Date: Fri Dec 17 2004 - 18:18:30 CST
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hmm, on Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 05:00:16PM -0700, Todd C. Miller said that
> > why the extra whitespace? could the behaviour be changed
> > that when one of -c, -l, -m, -w was specified, the whitespace
> > was trimmed? isn't that sensible?
>
> Because that is what wc has always done.
ehm, i am sure there are other examples where tradition
was changed because of some other saner behaviour....
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