Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2016 15:28:54 +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-M3tNCJhfZX@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 #3 from John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> --- (In reply to Sevan Janiyan from comment #2) 1) The 'BSD' output from CSRG is the current one, not NetBSD's recent chang= e.=20 The other output has been in place for 35 years. There has to be a compell= ing reason to change it vs the tradeoff of breaking existing scripts and reduci= ng compatibility with other systems. 'cat' on OS X follows the current output= as well (inherited from BSD of course). 2) The language is not clear (and I'd be fine with clarifying it), but what= you are changing is to have 'cat -be' insert extra leading blankspace for blank lines, but 'cat -b' does not. That seems far less intuitive to me from any= of the descriptions. It seems more consistent for 'cat -b' to always include leading blankspace or to never include, not to only do it for '-e'. --=20 You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.=
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