From: dot@dotat.at (Tony Finch)
Subject: [TUHS] basic tools / Universal Unix
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2017 14:51:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.11.1710171448410.22527@grey.csi.cam.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEoi9W67FAnonXt0-nBPiC_H3c6c5qsUOSvp6rbmzq4E0vcTkQ@mail.gmail.com>
Dan Cross <crossd at gmail.com> wrote:
> This is an aside, but I must admit -- with a sense of mild shame --
> that the '-v' option to cat is one that I use with some regularity.
4.4BSD has the vis(1) and unvis(1) utilities which are more principled
implementations of this feature (with corresponding section 3 functions).
It's slightly annoying being on Linux without vis and having to resort to
`cat -v` like some kind of savage.
Tony.
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Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-16 17:52 Clem Cole
2017-10-16 18:16 ` Tom Ivar Helbekkmo
2017-10-16 20:39 ` Toby Thain
2017-10-16 18:54 ` [TUHS] " Dan Cross
2017-10-17 13:51 ` Tony Finch [this message]
2017-10-17 20:22 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-10-16 20:05 ` Bakul Shah
2017-10-30 0:55 ` Ralph Corderoy
2017-10-30 2:54 ` Bakul Shah
2017-10-30 14:05 ` Ralph Corderoy
2017-10-16 20:39 ` Andy Kosela
2017-10-18 23:03 Doug McIlroy
2017-10-19 3:53 ` Random832
2017-10-19 14:33 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-10-19 14:41 ` Random832
2017-10-19 21:03 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-10-20 19:54 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-10-19 14:32 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-10-30 14:16 Noel Chiappa
2017-10-30 14:40 ` Clem Cole
2017-10-30 15:23 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-10-30 20:56 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-10-31 10:50 ` Ronald Natalie
2017-11-01 3:23 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-11-01 13:25 ` Tim Bradshaw
2017-11-16 1:17 ` Dario Niedermann
2017-11-15 1:25 ` Nemo
2017-11-15 2:10 ` Will Senn
2017-11-15 2:16 ` Larry McVoy
2017-11-15 2:37 ` Warner Losh
2017-11-15 3:07 ` Will Senn
2017-11-15 16:13 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-11-15 16:23 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-11-15 16:48 ` Clem Cole
2017-11-15 18:13 ` Bakul Shah
2017-11-15 19:01 ` Clem Cole
2017-11-15 9:58 ` Andy Kosela
2017-11-15 11:42 ` Ralph Corderoy
2017-11-01 14:05 ` Ralph Corderoy
2017-11-01 16:42 ` arnold
2017-11-01 17:17 ` Ralph Corderoy
2017-11-01 18:03 ` Dan Cross
2017-11-01 18:06 ` arnold
2017-11-01 20:16 ` Bakul Shah
2017-11-01 20:37 ` arnold
2017-11-01 21:04 ` Bakul Shah
2017-11-02 0:05 ` Chet Ramey
2017-11-02 0:10 ` Ralph Corderoy
2017-10-31 16:43 ` Don Hopkins
2017-11-02 17:48 ` Paul Winalski
2017-10-30 21:50 ` Charles Anthony
2017-10-30 21:40 Noel Chiappa
2017-10-31 19:23 Norman Wilson
2017-11-01 22:51 Norman Wilson
2017-11-01 23:09 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2017-11-02 20:29 ` Grant Taylor
2017-11-15 14:06 Noel Chiappa
2017-11-15 17:12 ` Ralph Corderoy
2017-11-15 17:47 ` Larry McVoy
2017-11-15 18:40 ` Bakul Shah
2017-11-15 19:58 ` Larry McVoy
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