cat -v?

[Rogelio Serrano]

On 4/11/06, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at mindspring.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Apr 2006, Rob Sullivan wrote:
>
> > >
> > > > if you add "-v", i would go the extra step and add all of "-etv" since
> > > > that's a fairly common incantation for examining possibly non-text
> > > > files.
> >
> >
> > Maybe it's not my business but I'm strongly against more programs
> > > including options that assume latin1 and break utf-8 text. Such broken
> > > programs just discourage people from abandoning legacy encodings.
> > >
> > > Rich
> > >
> >
> > True, it's not exactly wonderful that cat assumes Latin-1, but "cat
> > -et" (the -v is superfluous, btw, as it's implied)
>
> i don't think so.  at least with GNU, it's superfluous only if you use
> the upper case forms of those options (-E or -T).
>
> in any event, i'd vote for adding those options.  as long as someone
> else did it, of course. :-)
>
> rday
> _______________________________________________
> busybox mailing list
> busybox at busybox.net
> http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/busybox
>

Some packages break without that option.

Im not really religious about standards and i read somewhere that cat
-v is not a good thing. Maybe its better to fix that package and drop
cat -v.

Same goes for 'install -D'.

In fact these are the packages im using gnu versions instead of
busybox because some packages require options that busybox does not
support.

Cat from coreutils for '-v'.
Find for '-o'
Xargs for '-i'
Install from coreutils for '-D'
Patch for fuzz patching

--
www.smsglobal.net SMS Global Ltd Short Message Service For Seafarers