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Re: Defect in XCU ls

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Subject: Re: Defect in XCU ls
From: Glenn Fowler <yyy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 22:37:15 -0500 (EST)
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Organization: AT&T Labs Research
References: <Pine.BSI.3.91.1050116213150.18269A-100000@spsystems.net> <200501170301.WAA18569@raptor.research.att.com> <41ec576c.kBKeoyxLtOSuw4OI%Gunnar.Ritter@pluto.uni-freiburg.de> <200501180207.j0I27nL7006549@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
how would vis(1) differentiate between an embedded newline vs
the line terminator in the ls output?

On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 21:07:49 -0500 (EST) Garrett Wollman wrote:
> <<On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 01:25:16 +0100, Gunnar Ritter 
><yyyyyyyyyyyyy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:

> > A -b option has been present in ls since at least SVR2. It does not
> > help much since it is nearly impossible to process the output using
> > shell and utilities, though.

> The vis(1)/unvis(1) utilities from 4.4BSD would help with that
> problem.

> -GAWollman

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