Post #3705867

@rl_dane The 'cat -v considered harmful folks' (Kernighan and Pike) invented vis(1). > The preferred approach in this case is a separate program that deals with non-printable characters. We called ours vis […] because its job is to make things visible. I suspect that they would approve of sqz(1) likewise abstracted from cat -s, because they also said > cat isn’t […] for compressing multiple blank lines […] it’s for concatenating files. #vis #sqz #cat #Unix #TextProcessing #nosh