Bug 1306393 - unexpand chokes on empty lines
Summary: unexpand chokes on empty lines
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: coreutils
Version: 23
Hardware: i686
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ondrej Vasik
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-02-10 17:16 UTC by vvs
Modified: 2016-02-17 03:49 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

Fixed In Version: coreutils-8.24-6.fc23
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Last Closed: 2016-02-17 03:49:40 UTC
Type: Bug
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Description vvs 2016-02-10 17:16:47 UTC 
Description of problem:

unexpand doesn't like when there are empty lines in a file and finishes abruptly.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

coreutils-8.24-5

How reproducible:

Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. echo >test.txt
2. unexpand test.txt

Actual results:

unexpand: input line is too long

Expected results:

it should successfully process all lines.

Additional info:
Comment 1 Ondrej Vasik 2016-02-10 22:58:11 UTC 
As a temporary workaround, please try to use C locales. With LC_ALL=C unexpand it should not happen. I assume this is caused by recent changes in downstream implementation of i18n patch. Can you confirm?
Comment 2 vvs 2016-02-11 02:49:41 UTC 
Unfortunately it didn't help. Nothing changed.
Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2016-02-15 07:19:11 UTC 
coreutils-8.24-6.fc23 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 23. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-c6e4ae0beb
Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2016-02-17 03:49:37 UTC 
coreutils-8.24-6.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
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