Paul Eggert wrote: > > +.B cat -s > > and for cat I'd prefer the following (as we shouldn't be encouraging > the use of any of cat's options):
Agreed. GNU cat -s squeezes blank lines. HP-UX and other legacy unix systems cat -s is silent about non-existent files. It is one of those terribly nonportable options. Insidiously silent but different. Never use it. If you must use it then only use --squeeze-blank because it will either work as intended or fail noisily and there is never any doubt which happened. Bob _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
