On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 1:54 PM, Oleg Broytman <p...@phd.pp.ru> wrote: .. > Depends on the kind of cat and especially on the ways of using it. If > you ask cat to number lines (see manual for GNU cat) - what do "lines" mean > for binary IO?
Maybe this is yet another reason why some kinds of cat are a bad idea: """ cat isn't for printing files with line numbers, it isn't for compressing multiple blank lines, it's not for looking at non-printing ASCII characters, it's for concatenating files. """ - Rob Pike, "UNIX Style, or cat -v Considered Harmful", USENIX Summer Conference Proceedings, 1983. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
