On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 06:40:15PM +0100, inasprec...@disroot.org wrote: > Why is cat -v considered bad? I see that people often bring up > this particular example as a way to illustrate bad extensions, but > what exactly makes it so? cat(1) should do one thing - concatenate files. cat(1) was never thought to print "non printable characters". A separate tool should do that.
Definitely worth a read: https://harmful.cat-v.org/cat-v/unix_prog_design.pdf -- craekz
