On Mon, 1 Aug 2022 at 09:24, Stefan Schulze Frielinghaus wrote: > I gave unexpand from GNU coreutils 8.32 a try. Looks like it cannot > deal with form feeds or maybe I'm missing something? > > $ bash -c "printf 'foo\n\f\n bar\n'" | unexpand - > foo > unexpand: input line is too long
Which linux distro are you using? I see this error on Fedora and Centos 8 but not on recent Debian or Ubuntu systems. I've reported a bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2112870
