"Nick Guenther" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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> Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 22:31:10 -0400
> From: "Nick Guenther" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: OpenBSD-Misc <misc@openbsd.org>
> Subject: cat -v
>
> Why does cat retain the -[etv], -[bn] and -[s] options? I am reading
> the paper cited in cat's manpage and saw 'vis' mentioned. vis is in
> base, and line numbering and stripping can be done with sed, so why
> does cat have those options? Is for history, just for compatibility,
> or has no one ever bothered to remove them (I find this unlikely)?
>
> -Nick
Using the same argument, everything that grep, sed and awk can do can be
done in perl, so why have grep, sed & awk? All we need to do is teach
everybody to type "perl -pe 1" in place of "cat".
-Marcus Watts
