[ On , October 6, 2002 at 14:03:50 (+0200), Johan Danielsson wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: less-wide df(1) output
>
> woods@weird.com (Greg A. Woods) writes:
> 
> > secondly only a single space is allowed between fields in '-P'
> > output.
> 
> How do you deduce that?

Read the printf format specification string given in the standard, as I
quoted from it in my post.

There may even be some rationale give for it too (I don't remember at
the moment), but if not it's easy enough to imagine:  there are several
common POSIX specified tools which only deal well with single-character
field separators.

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