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-rwxr-xr-xtests/wc.test6
-rw-r--r--toys/posix/wc.c13
2 files changed, 13 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/tests/wc.test b/tests/wc.test
index 8b6365b1..4ab03868 100755
--- a/tests/wc.test
+++ b/tests/wc.test
@@ -14,10 +14,12 @@ EOF
testing "wc" "wc >/dev/null && echo yes" "yes\n" "" ""
testing "empty file" "wc" " 0 0 0\n" "" ""
testing "standard input" "wc" " 1 3 5\n" "" "a b\nc"
+testing "standard input -c" "wc -c" "5\n" "" "a b\nc"
+testing "standard input -cl" "wc -cl" " 1 5\n" "" "a b\nc"
testing "-c" "wc -c file1" "26 file1\n" "" ""
testing "-l" "wc -l file1" "4 file1\n" "" ""
testing "-w" "wc -w file1" "5 file1\n" "" ""
-testing "format" "wc file1" "4 5 26 file1\n" "" ""
+testing "one file" "wc file1" "4 5 26 file1\n" "" ""
testing "multiple files" "wc input - file1" \
" 1 2 3 input\n 0 2 3 -\n 4 5 26 file1\n 5 9 32 total\n" "a\nb" "a b"
@@ -25,7 +27,7 @@ testing "multiple files" "wc input - file1" \
echo -n " " > file1
for i in $(seq 1 512); do echo -n "üüüüüüüüüüüüüüüü" >> file1; done
testing "-m" "wc -m file1" "8193 file1\n" "" ""
-testing "-m 2" 'cat "$FILES/utf8/test2.txt" | wc -m' " 169\n" "" ""
+testing "-m 2" 'cat "$FILES/utf8/test2.txt" | wc -m' "169\n" "" ""
echo -n " " > file1
testing "-mlw" "wc -mlw input" "1 2 11 input\n" "hello, 世界!\n" ""
rm file1
diff --git a/toys/posix/wc.c b/toys/posix/wc.c
index acd0b3a0..b875c1fd 100644
--- a/toys/posix/wc.c
+++ b/toys/posix/wc.c
@@ -33,12 +33,17 @@ GLOBALS(
static void show_lengths(unsigned long *lengths, char *name)
{
- int i, space, first = 1;
+ int i, space = 0, first = 1;
// POSIX says there should never be leading spaces, but accepts that
- // traditional implementations use 7 spaces, unless only one file
- // is being counted, when there should be no leading spaces.
- space = (toys.optc != 1) ? 7 : 0;
+ // traditional implementations use 7 spaces, unless only one file (or
+ // just stdin) is being counted, when there should be no leading spaces,
+ // *except* for the case where we're going to output multiple numbers.
+ // And, yes, folks have test scripts that rely on all this nonsense :-(
+ // Note: sufficiently modern versions of coreutils wc will use the smallest
+ // column width necessary to have all columns be equal width rather than 0.
+ if (!(toys.optc==0 && (toys.optflags & (toys.optflags-1))==0) && toys.optc!=1)
+ space = 7;
for (i = 0; i<4; i++) {
if (toys.optflags&(1<<i)) {