On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 01:02:06AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 08:51:12PM +0200, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' > Serbinenko wrote: > > Colin Watson wrote: > > > On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 11:34:08AM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > > >> The "cat" command, if given a file with DOS line endings, will show the > > >> \r at the end of every line as a control character. For convenience, > > >> please consider adding support for this in "cat", ideally automatically. > > > > > > Makes sense to me. grub-devel, how about this patch? > > > > Unconditionaly stripping \r is a bad idea because sometimes cat in grub > > is used to determine why the system fails to boot. And if by a stupid > > action fstab becomes DOS-formated 'cat /etc/fstab' will fail to show > > this important point. But it's ok to add an option for cat'ing DOS > > files. > > OK. How about the following patch, then?
Vladimir approved this on IRC. Committed. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
