https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=210607
--- Comment #2 from Sevan Janiyan <ventur...@geeklan.co.uk> --- (In reply to John Baldwin from comment #1) > Note that GNU cat follows the current behavior: These extensions to cat were introduced in BSD so the GNU implementation is an imitation of ours https://svnweb.freebsd.org/csrg/bin/cat/cat.c?r1=962&r2=1357 > The idea being that you only get leading indentation if there is a line > number. Going to the description in the man pages, there is no reference to such behaviour which is really frustrating as it leaves it down to interpretation. FreeBSD -b "Number the non-blank output lines, starting at 1." -e "Display non-printing characters (see the -v option), and display a dollar sign (`$') at the end of each line." -n "Number the output lines, starting at 1." 2.9.1BSD -b "This, together with -n cause numbers to be omitted from blank lines." -e "Follow ends of lines with the $ character." -n "Number each line." I'd say for consistency the output should the same aside from what gets omitted with a specific flag when it is specified. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. _______________________________________________ freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-bugs To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-bugs-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
