On Tue, Nov 14, 2023 at 02:34:27PM +0100, Omar Polo wrote:
> On 2023/11/14 08:19:11 -0300, Crystal Kolipe <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 14, 2023 at 11:43:14AM +0100, Daniele B. wrote:
> > > enanching the original tool "num".
>
> I haven't read the previous linked stuff but
>
> > /bin/cat already has the -c option to number lines, although it always
> > starts
> > numbering at 1.
>
> I guess you meant -n, -c doesn't seem to exist.
Yes, I have no idea where '-c' came from. It's early :-). ECOFFEE :-).
But to redeem myself, I have just discovered a bug in cat when using -n:
$ echo foo > /tmp/1
$ echo bar > /tmp/2
$ cat -n /tmp/1 /tmp/2
1 foo
1 bar
>From the manual, it's implied that the lines should be numbered sequentially
and continuously, even across concatenated files.
Indeed, the GNU version in coreutils does that:
$ gcat -n /tmp/1 /tmp/2
1 foo
2 bar
Should we match the GNU behaviour?
> One could argue that adding -n in the first place was a mistake (:
Quite possibly.
