Thomas Rast [off-list ref] writes:
(Oddly, according to 'man 1p wc' here, the POSIXly correct format in
the absence of options is
"%d %d %d %s\n", <newlines>, <words>, <bytes>, <file>
Taking it literally would mean no padding/alignment whatsoever.
Neither GNU wc on my Linux exactly conforms to this.)
A space in the format string stands for one or more <blank>s. If only a
single <space> is allowed the standard uses 𝚫.
Andreas.
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