On 2012-07-12, Steven Atreju <snatr...@googlemail.com> wrote: > In the future simple things like '$ cat File1 File2 > File3' will > no longer work that easily. Currently this works *whatever* file, > and even program code that has been written more than thirty years > ago will work correctly. No! You have to modify content to get it > right!!
Nice rant, but actually this has never worked like that. You can't cat .csv files with headers, html files, images, movies, or countless other "just files" and get a meaningful result, and never have been able to. -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
