From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dot@dotat.at (Tony Finch) Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2017 14:51:38 +0100 Subject: [TUHS] basic tools / Universal Unix In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dan Cross 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. -- f.anthony.n.finch http://dotat.at/ - I xn--zr8h punycode Malin, Hebrides: North or northwest, veering southeast, 5 to 7, occasionally gale 8 at first in Hebrides. Moderate or rough, occasionally very rough at first. Rain or showers. Moderate or good.