cat -v?

[Rob Landley]

On Monday 10 April 2006 12:26 pm, Rogelio Serrano wrote:
> Should we support cat -v? or is it better to add a "vis" applet?

My ubuntu doesn't seem to have a "vis" in the path.  Is there a standard for 
this?

Apparently, our cat is currently up to susv3:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/cat.html

This -v is a gnu extension.  I'm reluctant to add options to cat, but I'm also 
reluctant to make up new commands for standard behavior.  Coin flip.

Either way, it should be a CONFIG option.

Rob
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