cat -u

Rahul Dhesi dhesi at bsu-cs.UUCP
Sun Nov 27 01:55:53 AEST 1988


In article <8985 at smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn at brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
writes:
>>Does anyone know why the SVID only lists the "-s" option?
>
>Maybe the people who drew up the SVID wanted to leave out as much cruft
>as possible?

Well, now, it might be cruft, but -u is *useful* cruft.  I have a shell
script containing the line:

     /bin/cat -uv "$file" | /usr/ucb/more -10d

I couldn't get it to work right without the -u option.
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Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee}!bsu-cs!dhesi



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