tag 14505 needinfo thanks On 05/29/2013 05:57 AM, Kakkar, Mayank (NSN - IN/Bangalore) wrote: > Hi RHEL Team,
This is the upstream coreutils list; if you were trying to reach RHEL support, you should contact Red Hat per your contract with them. > > I was working with cat command and testing its functionality. I learnt in one > of the manuals that if multiple files are specified, the contents of the > files are concatenated in the output, but line numbering is restarted at 1 > for each file. Thanks for the report. What manual was this? I don't see anything implying that in the 'info cat' section of the official coreutils manual, so this is likely a bug in downstream documentation rather than an actual problem in coreutils. But without knowing a URL of the faulty documentation, we can't tell you where to redirect your report. > Here, we can see that the numbering does not restarts with the new file > contents. coreutils' cat has never restarted numbering with new files. Maybe you were thinking of 'sed --separate'? At any rate, we're probably going to close this report as not a bug, although I've left it open for a bit longer in case you can tell us more details about what led you to believe that renumbering from 1 was expected, in case there is something we need to improve in coreutils' documentation. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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