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From: scs@athena.mit.edu (Steve Summit)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: cat -u
Summary: cat -v considered harmful
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Date: 27 Nov 88 18:34:12 GMT
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In article <4864@bsu-cs.UUCP> dhesi@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@adam.pika.mit.edu