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Re: 'Cat' feature request


From: Davide Brini
Subject: Re: 'Cat' feature request
Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2023 00:21:31 +0100

On Fri, 22 Dec 2023 13:09:11 -0500, Evan Tremblay <evanrtremblay@gmail.com>
wrote:

> --no-show-all (default if not specified)
> --show-all
>
> so, if you run:
> cat *
>
> it wont run(unless you use --show-all).

The asterisk is expanded by the shell, not by cat; cat just sees a list of
files, and it can't know whether they are "all" the files or not.

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D.



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