Bug#737348: column: line too long

2014-10-17 Thread Michael Meskes
On Sat, Feb 01, 2014 at 01:17:45PM -0800, Kingsley G. Morse Jr. wrote: > 1.) increasing MAXLINELEN to a megabyte, Which is as arbitrary a size as the POSIX2 one of 2K. But then, let's try. Michael -- Michael Meskes Michael at Fam-Meskes dot De, Michael at Meskes dot (De|Com|Net|Org) Michae

Bug#737348: column: line too long

2014-02-01 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: bsdmainutils Version: 9.0.5 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I really like the column command. I humbly suggest improving it to work with longer lines. Here's a simple example that elicits the bug for me $ ( for i in {1..205} ; do echo -n 123456789, ; done ; echo ) | column -t -