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Date:      Fri, 05 Aug 2016 18:07:43 +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
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--- Comment #6 from Sevan Janiyan <venture37@geeklan.co.uk> ---
(In reply to John Baldwin from comment #5)
> The problem is that I think arguments can be made for both interpretation=
s, so I would err on the side of not changing things since you risk breakin=
g existing scripts/setups.

that's a shame but I respect your wishes, sadly this creates a new split wh=
ere
NetBSD, OpenBSD & DragonFlyBSD produces output one way & FreeBSD another. J=
ust
as a heads up, the NetBSD test case for this behaviour did not exercise this
functionality (there weren't any blank lines in the test case) but just tes=
ted
that text was indented.
This has been corrected upstream in the NetBSD ATF tests so this issue may =
crop
up again should your contrib/netbsd-tests but updated to incorporate the new
test cases from NetBSD.

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