On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 10:20 PM, Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> So if I ask in debian-devel: "What is the recommended way to view a
>> file?", what will the answer be?
>
> However even if you do not like any of the recommendations it doesn't
> change the fact that 'cat' isn't designed as
Olaf van der Spek wrote:
> Michael Stone wrote:
> > Olaf van der Spek wrote:
> > > Maybe you should look at this from the perspective of the user instead
> > > of the perspective of the developer.
> >
> > By "from the perspective of the user" you mean "from the perspective of the
> > user who doesn
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 12:57 AM, Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 11:21:08PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
>>
>> Maybe you should look at this from the perspective of the user instead
>> of the perspective of the developer.
>
> By "from the perspective of the us
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 11:21:08PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
Maybe you should look at this from the perspective of the user instead
of the perspective of the developer.
By "from the perspective of the user" you mean "from the perspective of
the user who doesn't want to use the proper too
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 11:11 PM, Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 08:37:14PM +0100, you wrote:
>>
>> In what case would that misbehave?
>
> Don't know, don't want to find out;
Ah, it's just an assumption. ;)
> it's just not what cat is there for.
> Among other
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 08:37:14PM +0100, you wrote:
In what case would that misbehave?
Don't know, don't want to find out; it's just not what cat is there for.
Among other things, I'd assume it's a nightmare for UTF-8. If nothing
else, it's a whole unnecessary code path that needs to be mai
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 6:17 PM, Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 05:55:00PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
>>
>> Piping tail to less doesn't work as well as to cat -v...
>
> Correct; you'd be better served by using the "F" function within less.
> Or, if you reall
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 05:55:00PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
Piping tail to less doesn't work as well as to cat -v...
Correct; you'd be better served by using the "F" function within less.
Or, if you really really want to just pump data to the screen, try
tr -c '[:print:][:blank:]' '?'
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
> Package: coreutils
> Version: 6.10-6
> Severity: normal
> File: /bin/cat
>
> Hi,
>
> I've got MySQL log files with queries that contain binary parts. When I use
> cat or tail to view those, my terminal gets messed up.
> Could cat not write binary
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 5:02 PM, Sam Hocevar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 12, 2008, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
>> Package: coreutils
>> Version: 6.10-6
>> Severity: normal
>> File: /bin/cat
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've got MySQL log files with queries that contain binary parts. When I use
>> cat
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 4:54 PM, Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks for the report but what you are describing is not a bug in the
> 'cat' program but a misuse of it.
Thanks for the explanation. I was afraid of that.
I assume the same applies to tail.
But what'd be a replacement for ta
Package: coreutils
Version: 6.10-6
Severity: normal
File: /bin/cat
Hi,
I've got MySQL log files with queries that contain binary parts. When I use cat
or tail to view those, my terminal gets messed up.
Could cat not write binary chars (< 32) to the terminal? Replace them with
another char that
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