Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2016 16:22:54 +0000 From: bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: [Bug 210607] patch to bin/cat/cat.c to align output between when invoked with -be & -ne flags Message-ID: <bug-210607-8-p4hoRdLVfX@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/> In-Reply-To: <bug-210607-8@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/> References: <bug-210607-8@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>
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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D210607 --- Comment #4 from Sevan Janiyan <venture37@geeklan.co.uk> --- (In reply to John Baldwin from comment #3) > 1) The 'BSD' output from CSRG is the current one, not NetBSD's recent cha= nge. The other output has been in place for 35 years. That made me smile, <3 ok, the NetBSD change is nearly 10 years old. :) > 2) The language is not clear (and I'd be fine with clarifying it), but wh= at you are changing is to have 'cat -be' insert extra leading blankspace fo= r blank lines, but 'cat -b' does not. >From the source code /* -b implies -n */ /* -e implies -v */ Ignoring the -e flag & comparing the difference between -b & -n with the following in a text file called a.txt a b c 1 2 3 x y z cat -b a.txt produces 1 a b c 2 1 2 3 3 x y z cat -n a.txt produces 1 a b c 2=20=20 3 1 2 3 4=20=20 5 x y z so if -b implies -n, when invoked with -e, would you build on that or give another variant of output? cat -be a.txt 1 a b c$ $ 2 1 2 3$ $ 3 x y z$ or cat -be f.txt 1 a b c$ $ 2 1 2 3$ $ 3 x y z$ --=20 You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.=
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