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| author | Sami Kerola | 2012-09-29 11:21:59 +0200 |
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| committer | Karel Zak | 2012-10-02 10:43:33 +0200 |
| commit | 018dfb0fe7fc65720332abd9d0e8bdffa89eaa5c (patch) | |
| tree | 419f8ad14240f9746f41ef5fc267ae1d69f80207 /text-utils/column.1 | |
| parent | su: fixed a typo in pam error message (diff) | |
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column: describe change of separator behavior in man page bugs section
Add to manual page how to achieve old behavior, just in case someone
relies on buggy behavior of the command.
[kzak@redhat.com: - remove unnecessary info from the man page :-)]
Reported-by: Padraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>
Signed-off-by: Sami Kerola <kerolasa@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'text-utils/column.1')
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1 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/text-utils/column.1 b/text-utils/column.1 index 8a461a83b..993f737b6 100644 --- a/text-utils/column.1 +++ b/text-utils/column.1 @@ -65,6 +65,26 @@ the screen if no other information is available. .nf sed 's/#.*//' /etc/fstab | column -t .nf +.SH BUGS +The util-linux version 2.23 changed +.B \-s +option to be non-greedy, for example: +.PP +.EX +$ printf "a:b:c\n1::3\n" | column -t -s ':' +.EE +.PP +old output: +.EX +a b c +1 3 +.EE +.PP +new output (since util-linux 2.23) +.EX +a b c +1 3 +.EE .SH "SEE ALSO" .BR colrm (1), .BR ls (1), |