See the following testing:

$ cat -ve aaa
bla^M$

Why don't the end of line symbols displayed as `^M^J'?

Regards,
HY

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On 21.08.2021 15:55, [email protected] wrote:

See the following testing:

$ cat -ve aaa
bla^M$

Why don't the end of line symbols displayed as `^M^J'?

Do you ever read the man page?

Janis

Regards,
HY

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On Sat, 21 Aug 2021 06:55:45 -0700 (PDT)
"[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote:

See the following testing:

$ cat -ve aaa
bla^M$

Why don't the end of line symbols displayed as `^M^J'?

Because this is how the designers of cat decided to do things. Why they decided to do it this way and , more generally , how $ came to be associated with the end (of lines or files or regular expression matches) is an interesting
question but likely more topical on alt.folklore.computers or comp.misc than here.

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vlaho.ninja/prog

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On Sat, 21 Aug 2021 06:55:45 -0700, [email protected] wrote:

See the following testing:

$ cat -ve aaa
bla^M$

Why don't the end of line symbols displayed as `^M^J'?

Because unix tools expect text lines to end with the ^J
LineFeed character, and the cat(1) -v option will
"use ^ and M- notation, EXCEPT for LFD (linefeed) and
TAB".
So, you don't get to see the ^J at the end of a unix text
line with the cat(1) -v option.

However, the cat(1) -E option (invoked when you specified
-e) will
"display $ at end of each line"
where the ^J unix text line terminator would appear.

As to why cat(1) gives you ^M$ instead of just $, it appears
that you fed cat(1) with an MSDOS/MSWindows plain text file,
and MSDOS/MSWindows terminates each text line with the ASCII
character pair of Carriage Return (^M) followed by LineFeed
(^J). cat(1) doesn't speak MSDOS/MSWindows, and knows nothing
of it's quirks.

HTH
--
Lew Pitcher
"In Skills, We Trust"

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On 21.08.2021 at 16:15, Janis Papanagnou scribbled:

On 21.08.2021 15:55, [email protected] wrote:

See the following testing:

$ cat -ve aaa
bla^M$

Why don't the end of line symbols displayed as `^M^J'?

Do you ever read the man page?

Was that a rhetorical question?

And do you remember that as per Kenny's decree, all followups to a post
by HZ _must be_ in the form of a question?

--
With respect,
= Aragorn =

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