port echo prints trailing whitespace

Clemens Lang cal at macports.org
Wed Aug 13 14:20:36 PDT 2014


Hi,

> Each line is padded to 32 chars. Anybody know why? More than once I've had to
> pipe the result through "sed -E 's/ +$//'" to get rid of this.

I think that's because "port installed" and "port list" use the same whitespace
to align the version numbers. We should clean that up and use some proper
formatting.

-- 
Clemens Lang


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