From owner-freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Fri Aug 5 16:22:54 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 471B0BB01AD for ; Fri, 5 Aug 2016 16:22:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org) Received: from kenobi.freebsd.org (kenobi.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::16:76]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 36ABE1CA7 for ; Fri, 5 Aug 2016 16:22:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org) Received: from bugs.freebsd.org ([127.0.1.118]) by kenobi.freebsd.org (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id u75GMrda047128 for ; Fri, 5 Aug 2016 16:22:54 GMT (envelope-from bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org) 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 Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2016 16:22:54 +0000 X-Bugzilla-Reason: AssignedTo X-Bugzilla-Type: changed X-Bugzilla-Watch-Reason: None X-Bugzilla-Product: Base System X-Bugzilla-Component: bin X-Bugzilla-Version: CURRENT X-Bugzilla-Keywords: patch X-Bugzilla-Severity: Affects Some People X-Bugzilla-Who: venture37@geeklan.co.uk X-Bugzilla-Status: New X-Bugzilla-Resolution: X-Bugzilla-Priority: --- X-Bugzilla-Assigned-To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org X-Bugzilla-Flags: X-Bugzilla-Changed-Fields: Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Bugzilla-URL: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/ Auto-Submitted: auto-generated MIME-Version: 1.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.22 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2016 16:22:54 -0000 https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D210607 --- Comment #4 from Sevan Janiyan --- (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.=