cat -u

Steve Summit scs at athena.mit.edu
Mon Nov 28 04:34:12 AEST 1988


In article <4864 at bsu-cs.UUCP> dhesi at bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
>I have a shell script containing the line:
>
>     /bin/cat -uv "$file" | /usr/ucb/more -10d

Which is exactly why an option like -v (make control characters
visible) should be in a file-viewing utility like more, and not
in a concatenation utility like cat.

                                            Steve Summit
                                            scs at adam.pika.mit.edu



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