https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=210607
--- Comment #3 from John Baldwin <j...@freebsd.org> --- (In reply to Sevan Janiyan from comment #2) 1) The 'BSD' output from CSRG is the current one, not NetBSD's recent change. The other output has been in place for 35 years. There has to be a compelling reason to change it vs the tradeoff of breaking existing scripts and reducing compatibility with other systems. 'cat' on OS X follows the current output as well (inherited from BSD of course). 2) The language is not clear (and I'd be fine with clarifying it), but what you are changing is to have 'cat -be' insert extra leading blankspace for blank lines, but 'cat -b' does not. That seems far less intuitive to me from any of the descriptions. It seems more consistent for 'cat -b' to always include leading blankspace or to never include, not to only do it for '-e'. -- 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"
