On Sun, 2 Feb 2003, Jim Meyering wrote:
Have you had the time to look at my wc reallines patch?
Thanks for the patch. I'm not sure it's worthwhile,
but am willing to be convinced. Making your argument in
the form of examples (diffs to coreutils.texi) demonstrating
the usefulness of the
cat -n is great
can we have a 'cat -f' which will prefix each line wiht the file name
cat -f-n will display as file:line:line
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Ulf Harnhammar wrote:
The current wc doesn't really count the number of lines in a file. It
counts LF characters.
Aren't lines defined by newline characters? Isn't a file that is
missing a newline really missing a line, that is, that last line is
only half constructed? A partial line?
I
On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Bob Proulx wrote:
Aren't lines defined by newline characters? Isn't a file that is
missing a newline really missing a line, that is, that last line is
only half constructed? A partial line?
Lines in a file are definitely separated by some kind of newline marker
(LF,
Hello.
Ulf Harnhammar wrote:
[snip]
If I have convinced you, I will produce a patch against the alpha version
of coreutils. I'm unfortunately not familiar with TeX, but I can try to
add some information in the manual as well.
The manual is actually written in texinfo, which is not the same as
