BTW given that -f was broken for so long (6 years) it lends more weight to making -f behave like -F by default.
Note POSIX allows (and even implies this), and openBSD -f behaves like -F for example. Not something appropriate for coreutils 8.x, and I'd be 60:40 against changing in a later major release, but it's worth mentioning. cheers, Pádraig.
