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authorPádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>2012-11-23 03:06:07 +0000
committerPádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>2012-11-24 15:25:19 +0000
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seq: ensure correct output width for scientific notation input
* src/seq.c (scan_arg): Calculate the width more accurately for numbers specified using scientific notation. * tests/misc/seq.pl: Add tests for cases that were mishandled. * NEWS: Mention the fix. * THANKS.in: Reported by Marcel Böhme. Fixes http://bugs.gnu.org/12959
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@@ -21,6 +21,10 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
consistently padded with spaces, rather than with zeros for certain widths.
[bug introduced in TEXTUTILS-1_22i]
+ seq -w ensures that for numbers input in scientific notation,
+ the output numbers are properly aligned and of the correct width.
+ [This bug was present in "the beginning".]
+
** Changes in behavior
df --total now prints '-' into the target column (mount point) of the