On Sat, Nov 18, 2023 at 05:59:15PM +0100, Rhialto wrote: > On Wed 15 Nov 2023 at 08:04:42 -0300, Crystal Kolipe wrote: > > The attached patch fixes a bug in /bin/cat when using -n with multiple input > > files. This bug seems to have been introduced in 4.3BSD-Reno. > > > > Numbering currently starts over at 1 for each input file, here is a simple > > reproducer: > > If you want to have continuing (non-restarting) numbering for multiple > input files, one could use "cat file1 file2 | cat -n".
True, that would be a workaround. But shouldn't the current behaviour still be fixed? The restarting for each file has never been mentioned in the manual as a feature, and it isn't what most people would expect.
