https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=210607
--- Comment #4 from Sevan Janiyan <ventur...@geeklan.co.uk> ---
(In reply to John Baldwin from comment #3)
> 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.
That made me smile, <3
ok, the NetBSD change is nearly 10 years old. :)
> 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.
>From the source code
/* -b implies -n */
/* -e implies -v */
Ignoring the -e flag & comparing the difference between -b & -n with the
following in a text file called a.txt
a b c
1 2 3
x y z
cat -b a.txt produces
1 a b c
2 1 2 3
3 x y z
cat -n a.txt produces
1 a b c
2
3 1 2 3
4
5 x y z
so if -b implies -n, when invoked with -e, would you build on that or give
another variant of output?
cat -be a.txt
1 a b c$
$
2 1 2 3$
$
3 x y z$
or
cat -be f.txt
1 a b c$
$
2 1 2 3$
$
3 x y z$
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