paste on Windows
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P - Windows
U - paste
- Dominant language
- Rust
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Description
Using coreutils-0.8.0, funny behaviour on PowerShell-7. Maybe a bit of topics, but still...
PS7> 1..5 | paste.exe -
1
2
3
4
5
PS7> 1..5 | paste.exe - -
1 2
3 4
5
> 1..5 | paste.exe - - -
1 3
4 5
PS7> 1..5 | paste.exe - - - -
1 4
5
PS7> 1..5 | paste.exe - - - - -
1 5
Everything works fine, with seq.
PS7> seq 1 5 | paste.exe - - - - -
1 2 3 4 5
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reproducing the paste.exe commands in PowerShell 7, then compare their multi-input behavior with the seq example. Trace the paste implementation from the command entry point and verify that repeated '-' inputs produce the expected columns shown in the report.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- powershell, rust
- Domain
- cli
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 48/100