Paul Eggert <eggert@HIDDEN>
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Full text available.Received: (at 47243) by debbugs.gnu.org; 18 Mar 2021 17:51:50 +0000 From debbugs-submit-bounces <at> debbugs.gnu.org Thu Mar 18 13:51:50 2021 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47972 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from <debbugs-submit-bounces <at> debbugs.gnu.org>) id 1lMwoI-0006lb-40 for submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 18 Mar 2021 13:51:50 -0400 Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:57100) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from <eggert@HIDDEN>) id 1lMwoE-0006lE-W7 for 47243 <at> debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 18 Mar 2021 13:51:48 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE3D916014C; Thu, 18 Mar 2021 10:51:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id 47KnLV1JZZc5; Thu, 18 Mar 2021 10:51:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16519160133; Thu, 18 Mar 2021 10:51:40 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id GJy8tO9P6S5T; Thu, 18 Mar 2021 10:51:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.9] (cpe-23-243-218-95.socal.res.rr.com [23.243.218.95]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C6CB216012A; Thu, 18 Mar 2021 10:51:39 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: bug#47243: pr lacks -p To: Eric Blake <eblake@HIDDEN> References: <8639f2c8-3d28-47ba-f879-b4594397a715@HIDDEN> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@HIDDEN> Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <5fa22023-5f76-d87b-586b-f4fbe91c6dc0@HIDDEN> Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2021 10:51:38 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.7.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <8639f2c8-3d28-47ba-f879-b4594397a715@HIDDEN> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -2.3 (--) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: 47243 Cc: 47243 <at> debbugs.gnu.org X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org> List-Unsubscribe: <https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi-bin/mailman/options/debbugs-submit>, <mailto:debbugs-submit-request <at> debbugs.gnu.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi-bin/mailman/private/debbugs-submit/> List-Post: <mailto:debbugs-submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org> List-Help: <mailto:debbugs-submit-request <at> debbugs.gnu.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/debbugs-submit>, <mailto:debbugs-submit-request <at> debbugs.gnu.org?subject=subscribe> Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces <at> debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" <debbugs-submit-bounces <at> debbugs.gnu.org> X-Spam-Score: -3.3 (---) On 3/18/21 8:38 AM, Eric Blake wrote: > POSIX requires 'pr -p' to support paging (although it incorrectly stated > that it waits for \r, and is being fixed to wait for \n instead): > https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1433 > > During discussion of the behavior of -p today, the Austin Group was > surprised that coreutils' pr lacks -p altogether. Given that hardly anybody uses pr any more, I'm surprised that the Austin Group still cares about its options. It's an obsolete utility, and ought to be deprecated.
bug-coreutils@HIDDEN:bug#47243; Package coreutils.
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