However, the purpose of cat is to write the contents of a file to STDOUT.
And yes, in UNIX pretty much everything is considered a file. But that does
not change the fact that people do not experience a directory as a file, and
in their use of language also clearly differentiate between the
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From: Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: Re:Re: Cat a directory
But nonetheless very illustrative of how the OS takes into consideration an
unexpected
[it seems I forgot a paragraph]
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From: Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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I would like to see a switch added to cat, like -d, which
Now, either contribute something or be done with it.
I contributed a few clear, well-argumented reasons in favor of my position
^^^ wrong reasons
that cat should change its default behavior. You, otoh, have only
demonstrated that you are a
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To: Karlsson Mikael HKI/SOSV [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 6:26 PM
Subject: Re: Re:Re: Cat a directory
cat /bin on Solaris 9 does exactly the same thing as on FreeBSD; shows
the contents
Matthew Seaman wrote (22.9.2003 19:01):
Have you tried typing 'ls -G' using the system ls(1) recently?
Yes, I have and I even have it aliased in my .bashrc file like this alias
ls='ls -F -G' so that ls will always use colors and type endings. But my point
was that native BSD system ls only
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Karlsson Mikael HKI/SOSV wrote:
[...]
which are all supported in for example GNU/Linux ls, except 10 and 11,
but then they have an extra option to put different coloring on files
with a special ending. So that archives, moviefiles, soundfiles etc.
have a special color
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 09:06:00AM +0300, Karlsson Mikael HKI/SOSV wrote:
Try to run for example cat /bin in Linux, HP-UX, Solaris and other
*NIXes and I'm 90% certain that they will not show the directory but
an error message saying something.
cat /bin on Solaris 9 does exactly the same
Read my first post before reading this thing so you'll be on the right track
Other *NIX systems seem to have done this to their cat program so why
can't FreeBSD?
See above.
FreeBSD has a better view of the world than some of the kiddie OSes.
Try to run for example cat /bin in
On Thu, 19 Sep 2003, Karlsson Mikael HKI/SOSV wrote:
I personally think that some of these tests should be added to the
real distributable version of cat that comes with FreeBSD cause I
can't be the only one that this bugs. I mean what could a little more
code hurt to the program since cat
OK! I admit that it isn't THE BIGGEST problem for me BUT it is A problem. What
I ment in my last mail was that it is the biggest problem concerning cat. Since
someone always seems to cat a binary file without having the knowledge of what
it causes.
I personally think that some of these tests
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